Director of Academic Technology Pat Pettit also believes campus-wide mass mailings are not acceptable. I think mass or blanket e-mails happen way too often. We have many disgruntled users who phone us and ask us to stop it. We cannot block those types of messages, Pettit said. We have to teach users the proper use of e-mail, which is a good thing to learn for future use on the job, she continued.
Some students click on reply to all recipients when replying to blanket e-mail.
This causes the reply to be sent to everyone the original e-mail was sent to, freshman Liahona Gross said. It s fun. We go back and forth like a big chat room sometimes, she said. Freshman Jon Kraus said he found out how mad people got when he sent the whole campus a reply to a blanket e-mail. Once, on accident, I sent a forwarded e-mail to the whole campus telling them to quit sending me stupid junk.