Any decent spammer is familiar with the sting of a blighted recipient list–there’s the mourning that goes with bouncebacks, the chagrin over wrong pronouns, and over the “ie” vs. the “y” strains of spunky names. In a recent UNC college admissions incident, 2,703 students were incorrectly extended admission due to a “clerical error” that occurred at some point during the mailing.

I don’t know what mailer they were using, or even if they used one at all, but if you should ever find yourself on the precipice of a giant mailing, you can always test send…

And for the students who have to wait until the real notification shows its face in their inboxes, why not call just consider it spam and get a jump on ENGL 131?