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?
Hope Allah’s Wearin’ Kevlar
As some of you may know, I’ve got a FeedMap neighbor (also named Chris BTW) that’s about as politically incorrect, rude and sarcastic as I am (maybe even a little more, if that’s possible).
I don’t read Chris’ blog Intermitten Stream all that often, but I try to skim over his posts in my RSS reader at least once a month. During my monthly skim, I just spotted his post Hope Allah’s Wearin’ Kevlar.
All I can say is praise jesus… Someone out there has got the right idea. Honestly, I’m just as tired of hearing about Iraq as the next guy, but there are definitely other places we could be “stretching our muscle” so to speak… Such as Iran. Allow me to quote a little of Chris’ post:
Here here! I think Chris would make an excellent security advisor to the White House. We’ve got the largest armed forces in the world, let’s start settling some shit… You want peace in the Middle East? We’ll give it to you… one way or another. Just don’t go crying to CNN when we bloody a few noses in the process.
A great read. I highly recommend you check out his blog… right now.
BTW Chris, congrats on your successful installation of “C Daddy“! When do you and your drinking partner plan on upgrading to version 2.0?
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