Subject: Re: REMOVE ME FROM MAILING LIST
From: Dan Stromberg (strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 16:47:57 CST
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:26:10PM -0600, {USER_FIRSTNAME} {USER_LASTNAME} wrote:
> PLEASE, PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM THE MAILING LIST - I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
> ABOUT ABIWORD AND AM TIRED OF DELETING ALL THE EMAILS.
>
Once upon a time, there was a mailing list.
It was called the "clueless" mailing list.
Anytime someone sent an unsubscription request to a mailing list,
where it of course does not belong, the person who sent the offending
request was subscribed by someone else to the clueless mailing list.
So as you can see, the clueless mailing list was chock full'o users
who were constantly mailing each other with "how do I get off this
mailing list" inquiries and "unsucribe" commands. Imagine the
deafening "volume" of 100's of clueless users all asking each other to
be removed from the list.
Now, this is a bit black humor for my taste.
As you might guess, this would leave a very bitter taste in the mouths
of some users.
On the other hand, some eventually learned an important lesson, by
helping each other to get off the list the way they should have been
doing all along - by using the official unsubscription method for the
list.
Yes, it's black humor. And yet, it's a sort of poetic justice.
Hopefully the users of this list will learn from their painful
experience. Don't ask the list how to get off the list. Don't ask
the list to be unsubscribed. Save the !@#$ message you were sent when
you subscribed, that tells you how to unsubscribe. And if you can't
be bothered to do things in that easy way, then do it the hard way:
read this URL:
http://nis.acs.uci.edu/~strombrg/unsubscription-faq.html
-- Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
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