Bless your little soul if you’re on the Harvard mailing list titled “IR-Announce” which is the “International Relations Announcements List.”  This Voice reporter has no idea why or how she got on this list (probably signed up for it as a naive freshman once upon a prefrosh yesteryear), but wow. Talk about unnecessary drama clogging up your already clogged up inbox. Words like “imbeciles” and “mind numbingly stupid” and “blackberrying selves” were whacked about the list earlier today as several students hit the “reply-all” button with a simple request: TAKE ME OFF THIS DAMN LIST.

The thread is currently 15 messages long, and counting. Below are some choice gems.

“Seriously stop replying all to this list in order to be removed. Just click onhttps://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ir-announce and put in your email address and press the unsubscribe button. The other 1000 people on this list don’t need to be involved.”

“If I weren’t sick and in such a crappy mood, I would love the examples of nudge effects / destabilization at work here. Unsubscribe your own blackberrying selves. Sent from my laptop.”

The announce list is apparently open for anyone to email, even if you are not a moderator. Was this a stupid decision, or are students just too stupid to use the list responsibly?

Oh well. Just another Manic Monday.