I admit that I don't receive it as much anymore, mostly because all my friends have sent all there is to send to me, but every once in a while I'll get forwarded mail. But now instead of sending it on, I usually delete it. If I find it terribly amusing, I'll send it, but I'll try to delete all the heading stuff so the person I'm sending it to doesn't have to scroll through a bunch of garbage to get to the point. This year has been one of the biggest pains for e-mail users at Iowa State. Mass mailings have flooded servers and generally ticked-off everyone who has received them.
Mass mailings are e-mails sent to large numbers of students by a single person.
Last fall, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences sent out a mass mailing to all its graduate and undergraduate students informing them of the upcoming spring registration. Students were receiving the same letter over and over again, eating up valuable disk storage space on the mail servers. The same type of thing has occurred this semester, as many of you know, with an e-mail from someone excited about Chat Noir, a Web site on the Internet. The ISU Computation Center has set up safeguards to keep this from happening. There is a formal policy against sending unsolicited e-mail to a large number of people.