Forward this

As Mr. SS mentioned in the last post that Myself Speaking™ will someday outnumber Google. Yes surely it would. In fact I get so many requests from people who want to be a part that this can happen any day.

But it would not happen soon. The criteria we follow for choosing a contributor is very strict (You may have guessed by now since you are not a member). Also every contributor has a veto power regarding the membership part. So you would be required to meet all the requirements put forward by all members/contributors. So don’t be surprised if next time we reject anybody because we did not like his name.

In this post again I want to bring to you some practices followed by people. You can judge whether they are good or bad.

There is a trend these days of forwarding mails (from anyone to everyone in one’s mailing list). One of Mr. KS’s friends has started using a novel idea of returning the mails to the sender with the subject “backward”. However, it seems that people use this medium more often than not to remove their frustration of receiving these forwarded mails. So, any mail which a person feels may help anyone on his mailing list to the remotest extent dies then and there.

Our HOD changed sometime back. He has the habit of forwarding mails which he feels might be useful to someone. Initially I and some of my friends were not that excited about the cluttering of our mail boxes. This practice was quite unique when compared with those of the previous HOD and for that matter any other professor.

However, we soon realized that this practice is more beneficial than otherwise. Firstly, we have more information about the happenings not only within the institute but also outside in other institutes (Since any mail for the institute is directed to the HOD). Secondly, we are no longer under some censor who decides what would be useful for us and what would not be that of a use. People should be given the freedom to scan things themselves and then decide on their utility.

A (sharp) contrast to this was seen in the mails we received from our TNP (Training and Placement) cell. Though they had done a pretty good job but sometimes they were not that elegant when it came to forwarding mails in their complete form. What we received was their own version of the mail containing the bare minimum of information about a company and its offerings. Many times even the package was not mentioned (you can think what would have happened to the job profile which is second in priority to the package for almost all the students). We would come to know about this data hiding only when the company came to the campus and assumed that we know everything about the offerings and frequently referred to the mails they had sent.