Lately we’ve had a problem at work. No no, it’s not spyware… Well, that is a problem at work, but I’m not going to bitch about it again, so don’t worry. No, this problem is far more dangerous. It doesn’t simply inconvenience a user and myself, but rather the entire company.
That’s right, you guessed it… It’s SPAM. Not just ordinary every-day SPAM, because we’ve taken care of that by now thanks to some great products by GFI. No, this is a special breed of SPAM… Inter-office SPAM. It’s also not just any ordinary every-day “hey, this was funny, I think I’ll forward it to a couple people here” SPAM, it’s… wait for it…
“Hey, this is old and total crap, but I think it’s relevent to public safety and I’ll forward it to the ‘Entire Company’ distribution list so that NO ONE misses this announcement!” SPAM…
In the absense of any actual procedure for disciplining abuse of email privilidges, we’ve had about a dozen pointless crap emails go out to the Entire Company distribution list in the past few weeks. From the total crap ICE (In Case of Emergency) number in your cell phone to the total crap 3-year-old virus notifications (which we have also protected against, thanks to GFI and Norton) to the bullshit “Hey, come smell this great perfume” (honestly, if some guy in a parking garage is asking you this, and you don’t realize there’s something wrong, you deserve to get raped), we’ve gotten it all.
Since our management has done absolutely ziltch to prevent it, I was thinking about sending this link to everyone, just to see if I get the point across.
Think it’ll work?
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