Nils, I agree with you. I as well as a couple of other users deleted this message because it was extremely vague and I also mistakenly told people to delete it as well. Given all the rules we're supposed to abide by and that should assist us in not only recognizing, but teaching users how to recognize SPAM or phishing emails, these emails make it really difficult to educate people. Luckily, you took the time to email cons...@berkeley.edu, but is it realistic to instruct people to email consult@berkeley every time a confusing email like this one comes through? I would think that would inundate consult@berkeley.
Bottom line, I'm concerned that I'm misleading people with my confusion. Beth On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Nils Ohlson <nilso...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Hi Micronetters, > > This morning I received an email, in English and Spanish, ostensibly from > UCRS (the Retirement folks) about an upcoming advisory board ballot. The > email came from the non-Berkeley.edu domain > "ucrs_election_ad...@vres.us" > and it landed in my Spam folder. > > Consult@berkeley assures me that this is NOT spam. But it does tick me > off. Not only does this sort of unannounced non-berkeley.edu or ucop.edu > email encourage deviation from best practices by the readers, it could have > gone unnoticed or been deleted, leading to the disenfranchisement of many > UCRS members. > > Am I just grumpy, or is this yet another in a long string of questionable > UC-generated emails farmed out in a clumsy way to 3rd party mailers (this > time in Texas)? It's one or the other, folks! > > Thanks in advance for your wisdom. > > -Nils > > -- > Nils Ohlson > Administrative Analyst > U.C. Berkeley College of Chemistry > Business Office > 410 Latimer Hall #1460 > Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 > > (510) 642-1325 phone > (510) 642-4313 fax > > nilso...@berkeley.edu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: > > To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe > from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please > visit the Micronet Web site: > > http://micronet.berkeley.edu > > Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and > the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This > means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, > prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. > > ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the > micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu list. > > -- *********************************************** Beth Muramoto Computer Resource Specialist Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley 1650 Tolman Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 Email: mailto:bmura...@berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 643-0203 Fax: (510) 643-6239 “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in – forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” -Emerson This is the essence of forgiveness. You can't change what happened but you can make sure it doesn't have the power to prevent you from being happy tomorrow. -Paul Boese “Kind words do not cost much yet they accomplish much.” -Blaise Pascal ***********************************************
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