We read the headlines and make our decision from there. Email subject lines can serve a similar function. Tiziana Dearing, a KSG student on the COOP Board of directors recently began her mass-email about the COOP s relationship with the Bow and Arrow pub with an apology about sending an email. We should be thankful. Harvard College has a daily paper, The Crimson, which gets delivered to every undergrad.
Filters are just as bad as outright bans.
Suppose we only received emails from pre-approved lists or groups. The occasional rich debates that occur via email would take place between two students instead of 800. The illusion of a lack of social events would grow instead of the size of the events as more are held that nobody knows about. Lucy would never find her lost scarf. None of this is to suggest that we should indiscriminately send mass emails.