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Registrar's Office: Brace for constructive criticism

Here's an informal poll: how many times have you read the BBB so far this semester?

Me: Zero. You: likely batting less than .500.

I find this a serious problem. The BBB was a very important tool my first year. I'd receive it via PDF in my email and I would read it all the way through. However, at some point during the last calendar year (I can't even tell you when - which likely reinforces my point here) the Registrar's office decided that all of those PDF attachments were clogging up mail servers and they would no longer send them. Since that point I've received more notifications regarding the deadlines for BBB submissions than actual useful information.

I know what is coming from those anonymous posters: "you're an adult now, go get the online version or the printed version by the lockers." Yes, I know those options are available to me. I'm simply saying that I don't utilize them and I really don't think I'm the only one.

Why would it be so hard to simply have a single column BBB that is in the body of an email? Should the Registrar offer such, students like me will go back to reading it. Further, the overwhelming portion of the student body with a mail program such as Gmail can set up filters, tags, and most importantly, text search their archived versions.

But I can't emphasize enough the most important point of us all going back to reading it. I can't imagine that the substance of this suggestion hasn't made its way to the office by now. So, I ask, what gives?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).