May Contain Blueberries

the sometimes journal of Jeremy Beker


Yesterday I received an email forwarded to me from a student who seemed to take issue with the system I ran. They responded to an email that was sent to all of the student body indicating the system would be down for some maintenance on monday. Read on for the letter.

Date sent:      	Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:03:10 -0400
From:           	[name removed]@wm.edu
Subject:        	Re: myWM Unavailable Early on Monday
To:             	itadmin@wm.edu

Wait, my.wm is going to be unavailable on Monday? Really?
Like it was unavailable for a good portion of today, and the
day before, and several days before that?

my.wm is the most faulty system everyone I know has every
encountered. my.wm is the devil. my.wm NEVER works. I have
no idea why you bother sending out these emails explaining
that my.wm is going to be out of commission on a particular
day. We all expect, at this point, that my.wm is going to
work very sporadically, and we know, without question, that
when it DOES work, the layout will still suck, it will be
difficult to navigate, the little System Alert button will
pop up when we're in the bathroom and the middle of an
email, and even its name is still going to be obnoxiously
cutesy.

Every professor I've visited in their office has complained
about the perpetual annoyance that is my.wm. webmail worked
splendidly. It was efficient and easy-to-use. I never had
any problems getting into it. Its name was kind of slick and
futuresque and I would marry it if I could.

Please bring it back and/or make my.wm stop being quite so
hideous and painful.

Thank you,
-[name removed]