Friday October 27, 2006

Today at Sun we are experiencing the joy of a spam email having slipped through our defenses and made it onto a large, internal email alias. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does I'm starting to feel we really miss an opportunity to reduce our staffing in a functional area I like to call "Clueless Idiots." Those, of course, being the employees who are stupid enough to Reply-All with demands to be removed from the alias, sending yet more unwanted email to thousands of their colleagues.

At least we have not yet seen a barrage of email to the alias telling people to stop sending email to the alias. That's a sure route to a veritable email blizzard.

I suppose I should add the following. I have no knowledge of any future reductions in force at Sun and hope, in fact, that based on our recent results over the last several quarters, we will not need to take any such actions in the future. But if we do, I have some nominees! :-)

Get a clue, folks. Hit the Delete key and keep movin'.