56 1/2 Main Street ยป 56 1/2 Main Street: 27 Questions from a baffled SOTA
I am a SOTA student - Students Older Than Average - although in my case, I would qualify as a SMOTA student - Students MUCH Older Than Average. Maybe even a SMMMOTA-student. It is the loneliest experience of my life, as well as being the most stressful. I am sometimes baffled by this world of academia, and there are things that do not appear to make sense. I'm creating this page, to which I will return from time to time, to list the questions of a baffled SOTA student. (At this point in time, the name of the school I'm attending will not be included. I may eventually choose to reverse this decision).
Here goes:
1) How is this not spam?
Each and every time there is a hockey game, I receive an email through my school account. It's a sales pitch for me to purchase a ticket, or several tickets. I have never been to a hockey game. I cannot afford the price of admission. I admit that, as an older student, I have less interest in whether the school's team wins or loses. Homecoming for me is the end of the semester - when I can get out of here. It is not a week of partying and an all-important-future-of-the-world game played between opposing teams.
How is this not spam? I'm not interested in attending a game. I don't appreciate the clutter to my school email account - and I am required to have this email account. Why can't I opt out of this annoying stream of email messages? I'm not going to a football game. I'm not going to a hockey game. This is advertising, and it is unwanted advertising, no matter that it is in regards to this school's athletic program.
So, I avoid using my school email account. Recently, the email messages I sent from my personal email account were rejected by some sort of software on the school's server. I guess I'm going to have to go back to using the school email system and put up with the fact that this school is just fine and dandy with spamming the hell out of students.
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Hi there.
You could suggest to the IT department that they put a Subscribe/Unsubscribe at the bottom of all such e-mails so you can click Unsubscribe.
It's real hard being older than the rest of the students - they often seem so inane and superciliously unaware of just how ignorant they are about the world, and having to be constantly patient with so much of their unending fatuousness is a real strain.
Good luck.
LB
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