I sign a fair number of online petitions but as a result get inundated with other email lists, many of them asking for money when I dont have any, many of them not allowing me to unsubscribe other than by blocking them, many of them entirely redundant in more than one way ( a petition Ive already signed 20 times for example) and hence completely uncoordinated between the interest groups involved. It seems that frequently for every petition you sign someone places you on one or more new email list. This ends up taking a huge amount of time that I dont have. 1) There should be a way of being able to contact those that put you on their list automatically (it should not be possible to not be able to unsubscribe); 2) there should be better mechanisms to keep track of petitions youve already signed 30 times 3) , there should be a way to easily filter out emails that are primarily asking for money or asking you to make phone calls if you really dont have the time and interest in that aspect, or asking you to post on facebook if you dont wish to do that. In short, it should be easier to fine tune the emails you might wish to read from those you are unlikely to want to read and to communicate. I have a doctorate in the sciences with some significant research publications beyond the doctorate but next to no research funding and an adjunct position that is not enough to live on. Under a Democrat governor, I saw my salary as a temp slave lecturer fall 3 fold to 5 fold and then down to nothing. Yet the Democrats keep asking me literally 100 times a day for money when they cut higher education. Admittedly the Republicans are worse on funding higher ed, but that offers me no consolation. The computer should be a tool that can help with prioritizing but I think the priorities of most of these groups do not include funding basic research in the sciences, in reforming higher education etc. in spite of the fact that historically it could be argued, research funding helped to fuel the US economy. 4) This would seem to require that emails prioritize the specific needs of individuals more (especially when the interests of society are thereby served) while balancing the need for privacy.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:59:54 +0000
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