notoriousformula
02-27-2006, 03:20 AM
Accidental e-mail congratulates 7,000 on admission to UC Berkeley law school
( Lesson learned: Always be careful when hitting the ‘send’ button )
Edward Tom, director of admissions at the University of California, Berkeley, law school, was training a new office worker last week when it happened.
Tom was demonstrating the e-mail software used by the school and was highlighting several features, including how the user can filter mail and set it to send messages to one recipient or many at the same time.
That’s when he chose what happened to be a standard congratulatory message on being admitted to the university’s prestigious law school and accidentally sent it to all 7,000 students who have applied for admission to the law school. The problem, which the school quickly admitted, is that all of the applicants won’t be admitted. In fact, there’s only room for 800 to 850 of them. The e-mail congratulated the applicants on their recent “admission” to the school and invited them to an annual reception co-hosted by alumni and several student organizations.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,108992,00.html
( Lesson learned: Always be careful when hitting the ‘send’ button )
Edward Tom, director of admissions at the University of California, Berkeley, law school, was training a new office worker last week when it happened.
Tom was demonstrating the e-mail software used by the school and was highlighting several features, including how the user can filter mail and set it to send messages to one recipient or many at the same time.
That’s when he chose what happened to be a standard congratulatory message on being admitted to the university’s prestigious law school and accidentally sent it to all 7,000 students who have applied for admission to the law school. The problem, which the school quickly admitted, is that all of the applicants won’t be admitted. In fact, there’s only room for 800 to 850 of them. The e-mail congratulated the applicants on their recent “admission” to the school and invited them to an annual reception co-hosted by alumni and several student organizations.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,108992,00.html