or rather he assumed we are all high powered technocrats who can provide entree into the exciting world of computer data management (or for the US based folks, long haul truck driving) and he wasn't diligent enough to write a different email than his standard generic company letter. Perhaps we can raise money to transport him from New Mexico (the desert sun might have dulled his intellectual capabilities) to Cambridge where he can avail himself of the fine UK climate.
or scary thought, after making his way through an MSEE program he doesn't know the difference between a mailing list and the recipients of a mailing list. Perhaps his next email will be an *unsubscribe* sent directly to the list.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-dl-toasters@netapp.com [mailto:owner-dl-toasters@netapp.com]On Behalf Of Chris Thompson Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 2:15 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Resume
Venkatesh Vankipuram venkat@unm.edu writes to toasters@mathworks.com: [...]
I am a graduate student in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) at The
University
of New Mexico, graduating in Summer 2001. This Company's Job listings sounded very interesting to me and looked like the job I am
actually looking
for.
[etc., etc.]
Gee, isn't it great that toasters has such a world-wide reputation that people actually want to come and work for the _mailing_list_!
Maybe fubar can put him to work on the treadmill in the mathworks basement and we'll all get list messages faster... Perhaps with job promotion prospects to become fubar's field agent for "unsub[bing users] with extreme prejudice" [23 May 2001] (probably for posts like this one... I had better stop).
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.