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My little brother is applying to BYU this year, and BYU has been communicating with their new applicants through email. Unlike years past, for whatever reason, acceptances have been significantly delayed. However, yesterday he received an email from BYU Admissions saying the acceptances will now be sent out Monday, February 9th. He was so excited! Then he noticed that there was an attachment at the bottom of the email, which contained EVERY email address of EVERY applicant to BYU this year. There were thousands of emails on this list. Are you kidding me?? Who was smart enough to attach the list of every applicant to an email that went out to thousands of 18 year olds? I have concluded that maybe this is the reason that acceptance letters have been so slow this year…technologically inferior employees.
Question: What would you do if your email address was on this list, sent out to thousands of people who could sell your email address to any and every spammer they could find. Over 183 billion emails are sent each day, and probably 180 billion of them are spam. Is your email box ready to accept this many messages every day? Even the most insecure person doesn’t want that many friends.
