Friday, August 14, 2009

Forward

I pulled your legs. God, and people who believe they are god, do not follow any logic.

The obvious question from we ordinary people is: What are the possible sensitive information in those mails ? Is it our duty list, reminders to wash our hands, or dates of those irrelevant seminars ? For professional hackers, I am sure they find tapping the lines of government officials or those teenage models more interesting.

(Well, of course, it is an eye opening experience for an outsider to see the jungle of emails on so many unimaginable matters - written by those supposedly senior administrators !)

Going back to the problem at hand, we said to those friendly IT specialists, "But it is exceedingly inconvenient for us to go to the ward and line up with the house officers to log on the computers there and read our message !"

"No problem," they replied, "We could arrange these messages in your intranet account to be automatically forwarded to your university system."

"Well, isn't that a circular argument and we are back to the same problem of privacy and sensitive information ?" We said to ourselves.

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Some days later, several of our colleagues found that they could not receive the forwarded message. They went to Neptune and asked; this very encounter, as they told me, turned out to be phenomenal:

The first reply was, "Your mail box is full."

"How could that be ? All messages were read and then deleted already !"

"No, you have to go to the ward, log on the HA system, and delete the message there - otherwise it would soon exceed the capacity."

2 comments:

KM Chow said...

The logic is great - it's amazing, actually.

KM, with a permanent permit of residence on this planet

JW said...

My mind flashed back to the scene when Mac Dull ordered his 常餐/特餐 in 茶餐廳.....