It seems Valencia community college has never written the update for their atlas/pipeline software. Sungardhe the makers of software for universities at one time used donotreply.com as their example domain to use, instead of the made just for this - example.com.
Since most workers at universities are mindless sheep, instead of filling that example in with something meaningful, they just emailed away from do.not.reply at donotreply dot com. This little example has generate more email than any other source. To Sungardhe’s credit (or whoever owned this software before), after threatening to somehow sue me for this, they did send an update suggesting people to stop using donotreply.com and they changed their documentation.
But some people are slow to try new things. So Valencia has been bouncing me email for many years now. The latest from a Professor of Speech letting people know they… well if you wonder why she still uses the wrong email, here is the first paragraph from her email.
> So you really wanted to go to Europe with us this year, but just couldn’t save enough money in time? No worries! We have selected our trip for Summer 2008 and if you register now, you will have 10 months to pay!
So if you couldn’t afford to go on the yearly trip, if you save now, you can go next year… This earth shattering news of how time works so startled Maquerita, she replied with “ok I am in!”.
She wasn’t alone in replying.
Majidah asked, “Does this price include the cost of hotels, food, tour, and airfare?”
Dawn asked, “What’s with the age bountry?”
Richard let here know, “If we can smoke blunts in Amsterdam, I might want to do this. Email details!”
And good thing they are planning ahead, because when there were only 2 spots left for this year’s tour, Stephanie tried for free tickets with this heartfelt email: “i would love to go to see Amsterdam has always been a dream of mine unfortunately i do not have that kind of cash i am disabled and live on a fixed income. maybe you could show me picture or send them to my e-mail when you return have fun”
Since no one ever got Stephanie’s email because she emailed it to donotreply.com instead of valenciacc.edu, I almost feel guilty not sending her a couple of pictures myself.
