A Mailing List

The good old thing about e-mailing list is that it keeps you informed of the activities of the group that you belong to. It is convenient, fast and it reaches to everyone that belongs to the list.
Well, this is the main point of this story - It reaches to all members of the mailing list.

Let me tell you about an extensively abused mailing list that I belong to :p
Dont get me wrong, although it is being abused almost daily, I just love to be inside this mailing list. It is not that I like my mailbox being abused, you will see why by the end of this story.

It all started as a mailing list for our group's badminton activity on every Saturday. When we started the members were only a handful but as the group grows, it seemed that there were too many people of whom the organiser needed to inform of the location and timing of our badminton session. And thus, this mailing list exists. It started as a proper mailing list - meaning only the organiser used it to inform us of the badminton session, the movement of the fund that we paid for the court usage etc etc. Sometimes, once in a blue moon, a member or two would email to this group about some useful information or some jokes to share.

Then... somehow it all started. I guess maybe because of an influx of a bunch of newer members. They are, in my opinion, a bunch of happy and fun-loving people who love to make funny and interesting comments to the emails that are sent to this mailing list. Somehow, this sparks the interest of the older members who have been quiet and behaving all this while. And so, what we get is all hell breaks lose. An email of anything can get comments of tens of times by a few 'prime suspects' and resulted in over flooding of your email inbox.

Thanks goodness someone created gmail. I had switched to this email quite early, before all these junking of mailbox trend started...hahaha, lucky me. So all those comments that fall into the same subject header is still seen as one email. If you are on other email such as hotmail or yahoo, well, good luck to you. In an-hour of lunch break, you can get 10s of mails in your mailbox. If you are absent from checking your email in a week, I guess you can get hundreds of mails in your mailbox from this mailing list alone ;p

Well, I have never felt annoyed by this junking of mails yet, so far....... It is because the comments made are somehow funny and interesting. So reading them is like some sort of an entertainment to me. I sometimes laugh at all these funny and 'out of the world' sentences that these few 'prime suspects' wrote on these emails. You would see they do have vivid imagination and creative minds to create ever more interesting comments one after another. I have to warn you though that sometimes they write in jargon that we 'earth people' dont understand. This is actually one thing to laugh at too. And lately, one of these prime suspects showed through the mailing list email who had sent the most emails to the group in the previous month. Thus, nowadays these prime suspects are racing to be the top spammers every month instead. So the volume of junk emails have been increasing steadily ever since.

Well, those of you who never experienced this, I guess would not understand what the heck I have been saying all along. Those of you who belongs to the same mailing list, I believe you know it very well. And those of you who are interested to join the group sometimes in the future....Welcome and dont forget for your own good, please switch to gmail before hand :D :D