Unsubscribe me!

Begging your apologies but I tried unsubscribing on Friday and I'm still
getting mail, so please,
Unsubscribe Evan Boshnack
Do what needs to be done to "make it so"
Thanx,
Evan

PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!!
PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!!

Internet mailing lists are run by HUMAN BEINGS, NOT MACHINES. These
humans do things like go on vacation or go to work at jobs that do not
pay them to maintain mailing lists. The list mail frequently goes to
another mailbox other than the maintainers, one which is only read at
one or two week intervals. It is not unreasonable for mailing list
maintainers to take a week or even two weeks to process your request!
You should not be shocked by this. You should EXPECT this when you
sign up for a list!

If you find even after several weeks of sending mail to the -request
address that you are getting no response, DO NOT SEND MAIL TO THE
NORMAL LIST. This may come as a shock to you, but often the person
maintaining the list does not even subscribe to the mailing list. At
the same time, you will be annoying hundreds if not thousands of
people with your mail. If you have an emergency and apparently are not
getting any service, send mail to "postmaster" on the machine that
hosts the mailing list.

Do not on any account do this sort of thing:

K12OCEZB@vaxc.hofstra.edu says:
> Begging your apologies but I tried unsubscribing on Friday and I'm still
> getting mail, so please,
> Unsubscribe Evan Boshnack
> Do what needs to be done to "make it so"
> Thanx,
> Evan

Actually, most mailing lists are run by machines, not human beings, at 
least for routine administrative tasks.  Especially for such things as 
subscribing and unsubscribing.

I too attempted to unsubscribe a couple days ago, largely because the 
noise posts are not filtered.  There are plenty of list managing software 
packages out there, which aren't difficult to install.  I suggest anyone 
planning on running a mailing list look into them; machines were made to 
do repetitive tasks.

On Sun, 13 Feb 1994, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!!
> PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! PLEASE READ!!!!
> 
> Internet mailing lists are run by HUMAN BEINGS, NOT MACHINES. These
> humans do things like go on vacation or go to work at jobs that do not
> pay them to maintain mailing lists. The list mail frequently goes to
> another mailbox other than the maintainers, one which is only read at
> one or two week intervals. It is not unreasonable for mailing list
> maintainers to take a week or even two weeks to process your request!
> You should not be shocked by this. You should EXPECT this when you
> sign up for a list!
> 
> If you find even after several weeks of sending mail to the -request
> address that you are getting no response, DO NOT SEND MAIL TO THE
> NORMAL LIST. This may come as a shock to you, but often the person
> maintaining the list does not even subscribe to the mailing list. At
> the same time, you will be annoying hundreds if not thousands of
> people with your mail. If you have an emergency and apparently are not
> getting any service, send mail to "postmaster" on the machine that
> hosts the mailing list.
> 
> Do not on any account do this sort of thing:
> 
> K12OCEZB@vaxc.hofstra.edu says:
> > Begging your apologies but I tried unsubscribing on Friday and I'm still
> > getting mail, so please,
> > Unsubscribe Evan Boshnack
> > Do what needs to be done to "make it so"
> > Thanx,
> > Evan
>