War of Mails

Today I was relatively free in the office. The server consolidation project about which I talked in the last post is stuck as I am waiting for replies to various queries I had put to system and network administrators.

Yesterday there was a mail from one of my classmates to the yahoo group regarding his posting in Bhubneshwar. In his mail he had mentioned bbsr instead of Bhubneshwar. When I went through his mail for the first time, I could not guess what bbsr stood for. I had to go down the mail to his signature to decipher bbsr. Now another one of my classmate, Satyajit replied to his mail asking him what bbsr was. Since I did not have much work, I replied to his mail saying that bbsr stood for Bhubneshwar. Thus, the stage was set for a major war of mails between Satya and me.

Replying to my mail, Satya said that I had great understanding with the other person, due to which I could decipher his mails easily. I did not reply to his mail then, since I wanted to go home and left for the day.

Today morning I replied to his mail, saying that you did not need understanding with a person, but common sense to decipher bbsr. This war of mails or ego clash between us continued till the afternoon, by which we had sent some 10 mails to the group. That’s when I sent the killer mail. I sent a mail making fun of all Infosysians, which was not appreciated by some of 21 of my classmates who were working with Infosys. I had sent the mail just to pull Satya’s leg and it was all part of fun. Many of my classmates who were witnessing this war of mails, took it in the right spirit.

In the afternoon I receive a mail from Deepti, one of my classmates working in Infosys. She had lambasted me for the mail about Infosys and said a few harsh things. I was really pissed off when I read her mail. After this Satya sent another one of his leg pulling mails to the group. Then I replied to his mail, asking him to stop, or things would turn foul.

Deepti wanted to help Satya, and also could not bear to hear harsh things about the company she was working with, which was the reason for her mail. She failed to understand that it was all a part of fun play between Satya and me, since both of us did not have much work in the office. Now the people who were enjoying the dual between Satya and me did not appreciate Deepti’s mail. No mail was sent to the group, which would have told Deepti that she had missed the part of fun in the war of mails.

But, she happened to go over to Satya’s cubicle and read my mail lambasting her for her stupid mail, and also a chat going on between Satya and another of our friend, who also did not appreciate Deepti’s mail. Now she was caught in ‘No man’s land’.

I sent Deepti a personal mail apologizing for such mails, and she also apologized for the personal remarks on me.

By the end of the day all was settled and things returned to normalcy. For a few hours there were many furious people and angry mails across many servers in the country.