After students' inboxes were bombarded with campus e-mails Tuesday, members of University Marketing and Communications have made corrections to the Campus Bulletin Board program.
The bulletin board application is part of Ball State University's Communications Center, which launched March 16. It was created to "cut down on the number of university-produced e-mails that reach your inbox," according to the Ball State Web site.
In an e-mail to the Daily News, Gail Werner, update and news center editor, wrote that the sudden increase in e-mails students received was due to an influx in Campus Bulletin Board users.
"Because so few people had managed their subscriptions, they started to receive all the e-mails that were being generated out of this category," she wrote.
Due to an illness, Werner couldn't be reached for verbal comment.
Staff worked to find a solution to the problem after noticing Tuesday's e-mail traffic and receiving feedback from concerned students, faculty and staff.
Restrictions are now in place that allow student users to create Web posts, instead of sending e-mails.
This correction is just what students, such as sophomore Cassie Williams, wanted.
Williams wrote a letter of complaint to the university Tuesday after finding her inbox filled with demanding messages from students she didn't recognize.
"My first thought was, 'Why am I getting this?' I'm already leasing somewhere else," she said.
She would have been more receptive to the application if the university had made students aware of the update, she said.
There are 16 parent categories featured in the Communications Center, with subcategories in each.
In the e-mail, Werner encouraged students to visit the Communications Center Web site at bsu.edu/commcenter to manage their subscriptions. This will allow students to customize from what departments they receive e-mail announcements.
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