OMFG! This thread will provide a lot of entertainment, especially to those of us who've spent any time in academia and verify that a lot 'em are dingbats.
The student in question was trying fix a grade, and (these are just highlights)
[QUOTE]omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
[QUOTE]Omg I AM DYING. 36 replies in 24 minutes. This is hitting faculty in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, tenured, contract, adjuncts. Someone has started a SECOND email chain, back to the same listserv, asking to be removed from the email list
[QUOTE]Someone exasperatedly writing in " oh my God please stop replying all also it's a university mailing list and you can't be removed" And someone writing back "please remove me from the mailing list"
[QUOTE]The number of *dentists* who've replied is really something
[QUOTE]Now no less than SEVEN people have created an all new threads writing to the same list serve begging everyone to stop writing to the listserv
[QUOTE][Bold]Truly wild also is the number of people with named or endowed chairs, high-ranking administrative positions, or multiple cross-departmental appointments who can't spell, use appropriate punctuation, or are just really really mean!!![/bold]
[QUOTE]A vice provost responding in desperate all caps
[QUOTE]Someone has now referenced, for no clear reason, the lady who was immolated on the F train
And of course:
[QUOTE]Someone just said FREE PALESTINE on this 11,000 person NYU faculty listserv omggggggg