{"id":8282,"date":"2023-02-20T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:02:17","slug":"i-hope-this-finds-you-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/02\/20\/i-hope-this-finds-you-well\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope this finds you well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! \u00a0Thank goodness I don't work at the University of St Andrews where Sally Mapstone, the VC, who has a reputation for disdaining\u00a0email guff, advised \u2013 or was that told? \u2013 academics not to waste time and cyber space resources putting irrelevant text into e-mails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 fKDjKV\">The VC introduced three rules for her colleagues when she took up the post in 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 fKDjKV\">never start an email with \u201cI hope this finds you well\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 fKDjKV\">never end one with the sign-off \u201cI trust you find this useful\u201d, and<\/li>\n<li class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 fKDjKV\">never wear corduroy to work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given all this, and as reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/8146e476-aa52-11ed-9813-2dc4880907f5?shareToken=542a9a2c00755b6a5b3e2a02ad842024\">The Times<\/a>, Phil O\u2019Brien, who is head of the University\u2019s School of International Relations and one of the world\u2019s foremost authorities on the war in Ukraine, was understandably surprised to receive an email from a colleague that started with the outlawed phrase.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be from a Russian hacker. \u00a0A lesson here, surely, for other VCs, if not for us all \u2013 especially rule 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! \u00a0Thank goodness I don't work at the University of St Andrews where Sally Mapstone, the VC, who has a reputation for disdaining\u00a0email guff, advised \u2013 or was that told? \u2013 academics not to waste time and cyber space resources...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}