I've just unsubscribed from cypherpunks

Normally, when people post notices proclaiming "Jim, I'm putting you in
my killfile" or "I can't take it, you've ruined this list, I'm leaving!"
I think it's among the worst kind of petty egotism.  (To date myself,
Chuq's old "goodbye" postings are still the pinnacle of this for me.) It
makes me very uncomfortable to write the Subject line, but it is clear
and to the point; it makes things easier for would-be readers to decide
what to do.  And who said writing is supposed to be  asy, anyway? :)

Pot, kettle, guilty as charged, I suppose.  In my defense, however, I want
to explain that I've had many public exchanges with people on this list,
and this seems the most effective way to let them know that they will now
have to send me email directly.  In particular, if anyone has a rational
reply to my MS CAPI export issue, please Cc me.

Later,
	/r$

On 14 Feb 1996 19:56:38 -0800, you wrote:

>Rich $alz is the author of INN, and responsible (as the original
>moderator of comp.sources.unix) for the propagation of all the best
>tools we have available today.  Few people have contributed as much as
>he has to the spread of good free software.
>
>I think you probably owe him an apology.

I'm way ahead of you. I had misinterpreted his letter, thinking him to
be whining when he really wasn't. I've already apologized, and he's
already accepted.

On Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:33:29 -0500, you wrote:

>Normally, when people post notices proclaiming "Jim, I'm putting you in
>my killfile" or "I can't take it, you've ruined this list, I'm leaving!"
>I think it's among the worst kind of petty egotism.

I don't understand what the issue is. I used to use procmail for my
filtering, and it worked fine with Pine (although it would have been
nice to thread my mailing lists). Now, I use Forte's Agent, which
gives me a newsgroup-like access to mail folders _and_ auto-filtering.
So I have no problem with the mailing list -- if I want to ignore a
thread, I just don't look at it. I also filter out all subscribe and
unsubscribe requests into a "Bozos" mailing list, and I can easily
ignore "I'm leaving" style messages by not looking at them and letting
them go away on the next purge.

If you don't know how to use the right tools, or you are not able to,
or you aren't willing to, I fail to see how the members of the list
are at fault. The people at fault are, respectively, you, your
employer, and you.