Email Immoderation and

Something called The Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing might, maybe possibly be expected to have a Still Didn't Get the Memo Committee on Email Immoderation, don't you think?

There was one now-deceased Friendly Neighborhood Center denizen who unabashedly qualified for membership due to fly-off-the-handle late at night rants. Other readers found these rants quite distressing; RantWoman just filed them and sent calming responses if something seemed likely to go far beyond the walls of the friendly Neighborhood Center. Many Friendly Neighborhood Center customers have enough trouble remembering how to sign in that getting to the point of email immoderation is actually something to celebrate, but a few of them are versatile and get to electronic immoderation on other paths.

On the other hand, the Still Didn't Get the Memo ... Committee first came to life in RantWoman's faith community with RantWoman as self-appointed chair. There would be sheepish confessions associated with role. The Still Didn't Get The Memo Committee does not really have rigorous admission standards. Aptitude for one or more forms of electronic immoderation is kind of assumed, whether spamming the known universe with Dostoevskian tomes,  impossible multiple forward headers, sloppy multiple threads in one message, or just impatience with and arrogance about  the conceptual meanderings of internet tenderfoots.

RantWoman has been surprised recently to realize that there are many people who would fully qualify for membership in the Still Didn't get the Memo... committee. Consider Google Dude, the Google employee who penned the screed about women's biological unsuitability for tech careers. RantWoman still has not worked reading of his screed into her schedule, but he certainly qualifies for member ship in the Still Didn't get the Memo committee based simply on the "once it leaves your keyboard, you no longer have control of where it goes" standard.

RantWoman thinks of this standard every time she gets personal email from work addresses  with footers full of confidentiality verbiage or in the case of one email list with guidelines about violations of privacy forwarding without the original author's permission. It's EMAIL. Once it leaves your keyboard. If you are too worried about privacy, is email the right venue for you?" And NO, RantWoman for many reasons would NEVER impose a requirement to make this  promise in order to participate in on a faith community email list. For one thing RantWoman thinks readers should be able to judge whether or not asking permission is even needed.  But RantWoman's views are  a separate problem.

The Still Didn't Get the Memo ...Committee has a few positions open in the Telling Too Much of the Truth Category. Google Dude #2 who got fired from the Google-funded think tank for daring to talk about monopoly would certainly qualify if interested.

Tonight though the membership candidate most on RantWoman's mind is a person listed as the contact on an electronic form for people who want to request reasonable accommodations for an event. RantWoman actually is REALLY grateful that the community has evolved enough about accessibility to ASK PEOPLE IN ADVANCE about needs as they plan events. However, in order to say what is most helpful in a given situation, RantWoman finds it extremely useful to know something about the flow of an event. The Google form in question has one open-ended field that is unhelpful. It also has a request to email someone with questions.

Unfortunately, the Still Didn't Get the Memo Committee has on one hand been publicly hearing "send me email with requests" and on the other hand in connection with some admitted immoderation issues accumulating far too much email with various impossible conditions as far as actually getting email from RantWoman received let alone articulating the precise issues vexing RantWoman.. 

By impossible conditions, RantWoman means  Demand to meet in person, refusal to meet by conference call,  how about six weeks from now because I am too busy planning the very event you need accommodations for. Any resemblance between the points above and actual email messages would be purely accidental except for the point about the messages spectacularly qualifying the sender for membership in the Still Didn't get the Memo ... Committee.

There is an adoring public that theoretically could help RantWoman however, RantWoman kind of lost it. At First, Adoring Public was fine with a proposal to meet  SIX WEEKS after the upcoming event.  Said groupie did finally get it that RantWoman was trying to deal with the event, but RantWoman had already lost it about the six weeks out standard. RantWoman decided specifically to say the words "reasonable accommodations" and to state publicly a clear really simple request related to a topic that has been frying her (and other people's) nerves for YEARS. RantWoman is VERY grateful for how the request was received.

Other parts of RantWoman's comments caused GREAT Consternation. RantWoman thinks she needs to take responsibility for one issue. On the other hand, RantWoman's request got results. For one thing RantWoman learned that despite the public statements about email, another person was actually handling the requests. True, it is someone who frequently says "RantWoman, why do you need" or "RantWoman that's just not fair..." when RantWoman needs to state her needs. RantWoman is tired of but used to this behavior and mostly manages to be polite, to persist and to be civil. Mostly. This IS RantWoman.

For another thing, RantWoman was VERY grateful to learn that other voices had been heard from and that other people also expressed concerns about how different ways of planning an event pose accessibility problems.

Another member of RantWoman's adoring public suggests just asking another person.
RantWoman quaintly thinks all users should be able to get their request email onto the same path. If a page is out there, it should work for everyone EVEN if one of the very people who most needs accommodation can overachieve about email immoderation.

RantWoman has been overcome with a paroxysm of discretion though about yet another circumstance making her absolutely BALLISTIC but for now, RantWoman will leave matters ballistic to North Korea.