I am currently enrolled as a first-year student at the University of Tennessee College of Law. When important messages such as grade calculations, financial deadlines, and the like need to be disseminated to the entire class, the distributer can utilize the first-year listserv to easily send an email to all. Unfortunately, the listserv can also be accessed by individuals with less than desirable intentions, clogging our inboxes with spam. I decided to take action, and the following is the verbatim exchange between myself and one of the spamming culprits, who's name I have changed to protect his identity.
From
san dolla
To
UTLAW1L@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject
[UTLAW1L] cheap books
Date
January 12, 2011 1:14:20 PM EST
I have the Business Associations text and supplement, the Employment Discrimination text and supplement, Public International Law text, Torts II (used by King and some others), Kuney's Contract text and more. They are all in either fair or really good condition and I will sell very cheap. I also have many professional study guides, horn books, and even audio study aids. Please contact me if you need any of these. You can still return the ones you bought at the bookstore and save hundreds of dollars.
865.XXX.XXXX
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Sanny Dolla
Candidate for Juris Doctor 2012
Tennessee College of Law
From
san dolla
To
UTLAW1L@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject
[UTLAW1L] selling used books REALLY cheap
Date
January 14, 2011 8:45:10 AM EST
lots of cheap books both 1l and upper division and study guides stilll availible. Times are tough I'm selling cheap. I may have what you need. Texts, Supplments, etc.
YOU CAN STILL RETURN AND SAVE HUNDREDS!!!
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Sanny Dolla
Candidate for Juris Doctor 2012
Tennessee College of Law
From
Timothy Lee
To
UTLAW1L@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU, san dolla
Subject
[UTLAW1L] selling used books REALLY REALLY cheap
Date
January 14, 2011 6:54:20 PM EST
Because I'm sick of his spam and rudeness, I am further spamming you all to implore you not to buy anything from 2L San Dolla. You may be familiar with his multiple caps locked emails trying to hawk his old books and "SAVE HUNDREDS!!!" on books for classes we've started days ago. Already sick of the abuse of the listserv in general and further inflamed by San Dolla's used-car-salesman-like rhetoric, I emailed him and politely asked him to stop spamming all of us 1L's with repeated requests to unload his old course materials, and his reply was, "I am trying you a favor [sic]. mind your own business." If that's how he treats his target demographic, imagine how he treated his books during the course of the semester. I then requested that if he insisted on spamming us all that he kindly remove my email address from his efforts, to which he replied, "Tim Lee call me and lets meet up [phone number omitted]. I have sold a lot of books so your opinion means nothing. It works. Lets talk in person." Confused by this reply I declined his invitation, and instead decided to take action. So, to keep his scheme from working, I implore all my fellow 1L's to refrain from granting 2L San Dolla your business. Good day.
All the best,
Timothy Lee
From
san dolla
To
Timothy Lee
Subject
Re: selling used books REALLY REALLY cheap
Date
January 14, 2011 10:08:20 PM EST
you just fucked up my friend. I'll make your pussy life a living hell. Before I went to law school I got paid by the government to make people's lives hell.. Im a pro
From
san dolla
To
Timothy Lee
Subject
Re: selling used books REALLY REALLY cheap
Date
January 14, 2011 10:08:45 PM EST
we'll be meeting eachother real soon
From
Timothy Lee
To
san dolla
Subject
Re: selling used books REALLY REALLY cheap
Date
January 15, 2011 7:47:44 PM EST
San,
My email to the listserv concerning your solicitous behavior has garnered a lot of support among the 1L class. I am pleased that I was not alone in my abhorrence of listserv abuse.
In our law school orientation, Dean Morgan called upon our entire class to behave with civility not only in the classroom but outside of it as well. Our behavior not only represents ourselves but the entire college of law, and we must act accordingly. I find your reply, in which you threaten to "make [my] pussy life a living hell," disheartening because you are not only embarrassing yourself with your juvenile claims, but embarrassing the entire school by being a member of the college.
I researched your Facebook profile to garner more insight into your antics. For first, you really should alter your privacy settings, because all of your profile information and pictures are available for viewing to anyone with internet access (and they are not flattering). Second, you list one of your former occupations as "machinehunner" for the Army. I assume you meant machine gunner, and I am further assuming that this role is what you are referring to when you claim you were "paid by the government to make people's lives hell" (and not your former occupation as a clerk in a pornography store that I have been informed you were very passionate about). I wish to thank you for your service to your country. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the members of the Armed Services, and your selflessness in serving is wholly commendable and noble. However, just because you were trained to use a machine hun does not give you the right to threaten me or anyone else over an email. Further, I would hope that other soldiers do not classify their role as that of "mak[ing] people's lives hell," as you seem to, but rather as peace keepers and servants of the country.
Please refrain from any more childish threats to resort to violence. You are embarrassing yourself, and you are embarrassing me because in a few years we will have the same degree. I take your claim that "we'll be meeting eachother [sic] real soon" seriously, and if the threats continue I will have no choice but to report you to the Dean and possibly the police. Instead, it is my hope we can be peace keepers and broker a truce. I was simply tired of the spam being sent to the listserv, and wished to see it come to an end. Certainly you can understand my position, so let us put this entire episode behind us and continue to focus on the study of law.
All the best,
Timothy Lee
From
san dolla
To
Timothy Lee
Subject
Re: selling used books REALLY REALLY cheap
Date
January 15, 2011 8:04:02 PM EST
I sold many books to your 1L class and have people contacted up to five times a day asking for my books. I am doing them a favor. You are a child who knows nothing of life. I would never hurt someone who can not stand up for themselves a look a man in the eyes when the critisim them. You have nothing to fear but your inability to be a true man. I have held prestigious internships in Knoxville's largest firms, make stellar grades, and support the law school community. I needed extra money to support my education, nobody paid for my law school and I paid for college with four years of hell fighting war across the middle east and sleeping in the freezing dirt in Germany. The GI bill ran out in college and now I sell books, like EVERY other law student, to make extra cash. You were the ONLY one who complained to me about the emails. I received over 50 email from people inquiring into purchasing my books. Then you have the nerve to tell people not to. What gives you the right. And there is nothing on my facebook i am not proud of. It did not effect me getting highly paid internships. I am also very friendly with dean morgan, so if you read the listserv policy you will see I am doing nothing wrong. But you are interfering with my business operations, a tort you may learn about next year.
BY the was it is machine gun, not mach hun. Check your grammar. You are a child who doesn't know when there is a time to be eloquent and a time to spit it out. I know a lot of important people in this city, I have stayed at the Governor elect's cabin, and some of the most prestigious lawyers know me and come to me to show their respect for what I did in Iraq. You are a pest. I would never hurt you but I'll remember your name when I am two years ahead of you.