Looking for a word...

[strawberry]

I'm trying to find a posh word to explain that computers don't care who a person is or what title they hold, they treat everyone equally.

 

Conversely i'd also love a word that suggests that someone is super interested in job titles.

 

For instance. OMG the heads email went into my spam.. That's because the spam filter doesn't care who the head is , its not as hung up on job titles as you are.

[Steve21]

I'd be tempted with something like "User Agnostic" Although I guess in a bit of a weird context, think it'd get the point across.

 

Steve

[DJ-1701]

It's too early in the morning for questions like that.

 

So far all I can think of is Impartial and Compeled.

[Boredguy]

"Picky" is a simpler version

[cherd84]

@sonofsanta Right up your street?

[DJ-1701]

"Picky" is a simpler version

 

So are pretentious and pompous, but I don't think those would go down well.

Edited April 7, 2016 by DJ-1701

[jinnantonnixx]

'disinterested'? Not to be confused with 'uninterested'.

[pcstru]

"OMG the heads email went into my spam.. That's because the spam filter is agnostic to authority, it's not such an ass about the appellation as you."

 

(could probably do some nice alliteration with "a" words with more thought)

Edited April 7, 2016 by pcstru

[Arthur]

I'm trying to find a posh word to explain that computers don't care who a person is

Non-discriminatory, insouciant, without predilection?

 

they treat everyone equally.

Equal opportunities software.

Edited April 7, 2016 by Arthur

[Domino]

Squaglasical

[strawberry]

some brilliant suggestions there ! thank you all.

[DJ-1701]

Squaglasical

 

Why do I feel the only way I would find that in the dictionary is if it fell off the shelf, the pages flew open and hit me squarely on the head?

[Domino]

Why do I feel the only way I would find that in the dictionary is if it fell off the shelf, the pages flew open and hit me squarely on the head?

 

 

I didn't just make it up, look here's the definition

 

squaglasical

{adjective}

a posh word to explain that computers don't care who a person is or what title they hold, they treat everyone equally.

"Damn bro, that mail system is well squaglasical"

[DJ-1701]

I didn't just make it up, look here's the definition

 

squaglasical

{adjective}

a posh word to explain that computers don't care who a person is or what title they hold, they treat everyone equally.

"Damn bro, that mail system is well squaglasical"

 

A term coming to an urban dictionary near you!

[biz]

It's too early in the morning for questions like that.

 

So far all I can think of is Impartial and Compeled.

 

+1 for impartial, however I'll put good money on the followup question being "Can you stop it from being imparital?"

[Steve21]

For instance. OMG the heads email went into my spam.. That's because the spam filter doesn't care who the head is , its not as hung up on job titles as you are.

 

In all seriousness though, any reason you don't set all internal email addresses to bypass spam filter? Would resolve that issue and just fix all internal stuff. (Assuming this was all internal)

 

Steve

[strawberry]

unfortunately we run several email systems ( rules of the federation) and we have one particular member of staff who gets offended about everything and correlates it to peoples positions ( OMG they need access to the site 24/7 as there child attends the school, I can't believe that went to spam, We demand total mobile phone coverage, what if a teacher needs to phone for an ambulance!)

[Norphy]

In all seriousness though, any reason you don't set all internal email addresses to bypass spam filter? Would resolve that issue and just fix all internal stuff. (Assuming this was all internal)

 

Steve

 

Because even internal users are stupid and have a habit of picking up nasties and forwarding on the latest chain letters. I'm more than happy to squash that sort of crap, even if it is from the head.

[elsiegee40]

I ended up getting the NM and the clerk to the governors together at my governor school and explaining the need for governor email addresses to be routinely white-listed. Once the clerk understood the NM wasn't psychic and the NM (not on here) understood that the clerk's job was difficult if she spent most of her time wading through her spam box we had harmony!

[PyROm]

I think you should suggest they send the spam filter on an etiquette course to solve the issue. That way it will know the mail is important if the user drinks their afternoon tea with their pinkie out

[Ephelyon]

The computer is indiscriminate, dispassionate, detached, neutral, indifferent, unbiased and unprejudiced. This all stems from the fact that it lacks a brain.

 

Perhaps you could hint at a similar underlying cause for your second scenario?

 

In all seriousness though, if you're running Exchange/O365 with its internal spam filter, and you wanted to strike a balance between maintaining general spam filtering and whitelisting all internal users, you could populate all your staff users' Manager attributes in AD to reflect your organisational hierarchy and then create a Transport Rule along the lines of:

 

"Apply rule to messages

when the sender is the 'Manager' of a recipient

set the spam confidence level to '0'"

[twin--turbo]

Ambivalent.

 

TT

[jdoyle]

the email needs of the many outweigh the emails of the 1.