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I got an email this afternoon. It's addressed to gsc-parents@lists.wisc.edu and consist mostly of Japanese characters. The Grad Student Collaborative (GSC) is a real thing, and despite not being a student anymore, I still get their emails. None-the-less, the high Asian character content and my non-parental status led me to label it junk almost immediately.

Then the replies started coming in. As of 7:54 8:35 9:57 PM there have been 79 101 115 in all. Annoying at first, but then, as they continued, amusing. By my tally there have been 73 requests sent to the entire list to PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST. Intermingled with those have been roughly 17 responses directing people to the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Neither tactic seems to have been effective. And then there're the 26 requests for everybody to stop using the Reply All button, sent via the Reply All button. Very meta. This internet, so fraught with challenges!

A couple of my favorite responses:

From Shang,,,,,,,,,Ma:





From Jennifer Moore—provider of wise, yet irrelevant advice:

From TIM MACAFEE, who can not write in English:


I didn't want to be left out:

It's a lie. I'm very interested in this event.