Yesterday, I sent a work-related email to the City Manager (what small rural villages have instead of a mayor) of a rural (i.e., not on the road system) Alaskan village, population 310 as of the 2000 census.
The email address was citymanager@cityof(townname).com
I got in response an auto-reply:
The City of (name redacted) has changed its email to (first name of city manager)(town name)@gci.net.
gci is the local internet service provider.
It would be as if I had emailed the mayor of Springfield at the email address mayor@springfield.com, and gotten an autoreply:
The City of Springfield has changed its email to JoeSpringfield@earthlink.net.
So much cultural and sociological information in one line, and in its delivery method!
3 comments:
That is how Berkeley governement workers feel about themselves. Berkeley is their assets for current earnings, future retirement that covers their family including domestic partners. They are all #@*&^xberkeley@berkeleyca.gov
LOL! I wasn't commenting on how he feels about himself. I was commenting on how the town (1) apparently stopped using its own server and (2) apparently does not use automatic forwarding when the head honcho changes his email address!
I knew you didn't mean what I said. However, I think Berkeley officials would do the same for different reasons except they would always have their own server for they have abudant revenues from Berkeley taxpayers.
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