Penn Computing

What kind of system, I ask you, allows you to remove yourself as the owner of a mailing list without somehow verifying that the list is left with a valid, current owner, thereby leaving the list utterly unchangeable?

For starters.

Man I get so frustrated with this place sometimes.

Dispatches from Philadelphia, vol. 2, issue 1

Some helpful tips for the visiting Bostonian:

1. Both Boton and Philadelphia have a Bureau of Street Signs and Walk Signals. You should be warned that they have chosen to allocate their budget in very different ways.

2. In Boston, people recycle. That's the law, and it's easy to do, and people do it. In Philadelphia, it might be the law, we're not sure, but...oh, here, this should cover it.

3. Don't forget about the possibility of being "in a Philadelphia". No one seems to carry seltzer, for instance. Then there's this mailing list for my class that I'm trying to set up, but I inadvertantly mistyped an email address and now I can't actually change anything (or, indeed, send mail to it from my Penn address). There's a phone number for ISC, who seem to be in charge of this, but I'm not allowed to call it; I have to call my Local Service Something and have him call ISC, even though he didn't sound particularly certain what I meant by "mailing list". (I think he's probably very good at getting the desktops to run, print, connect, etc.)

Culture shock'll kill ya, folks.