Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week witnessed a forceful backlash against Dan A. Simons '99, who recently misused Harvard's e-mail resources to mass-mail an advertisement for an a cappella concert. While we disagree with the magnitude of the campus' reaction, we agree with its general principles...
...hapless first-year was exercising the ambition characteristic of Harvard students when he used his word processor to cut and paste addresses into an advertisement for last week's Opportunes-Callbacks concert. While he may have gained some concert-goers, he also drew a barrage of tongue-lashings. Former Digitas president Jeff C. Tarr '96 called it a "horrible waste of resources" and "bad e-mail etiquette." And Paul Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts Sciences Committee on Information Technology insisted that mass mailings could "bring the system to its knees." The most extreme reaction was a piece...
...anniversary concert will take place at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March...
Poor Daniel A. Simon '99. He is simply a spirited a-capella singer who thought he'd volunteer to advertise for last night's Opportunes-Callbacks concert by sending an e-mail message to a lot of people. The next thing he knows, people are scrawling "Immoral E-Mail Freak" on his Canaday door, and the front page of this newspaper describes the ensuing fallout as an "outrage...
...resources to monitor potential violations of mass e-mailings. There is much legal ambiguity in FAS policy, especially in what "indiscriminately" means (after all, the Opportunes' message was not 'indiscriminate' so far as I can tell: it was targeted at a very specific audience of potential concert-goers...