Let's say it was your task to find entertainment for a large department event. And let's say you decided to send out an e-mail to your immediate colleagues suggesting that they sign up to sing or play instruments. And further, that if they DIDN'T sign up, you would hog the microphone and sing a medley of hits by Bad Company.

And then, let's say you sent that e-mail not to your closest colleagues, but to a giant e-mail list of people who were not in your department, and who do not know and love you and understand your "special problems." What then?

Why, then, you would be me, just a moment ago.