Re: unsubscrive

Time May Wrote:

>Maybe these dweebs are posting from an alternate universe? A universe in
>which not even messages explaining that "unsubscrive," "unsuscribe,"
>"undescribe," "unscribe," and "unimbibe" are not valid alternate spellings
>of "unsubscribe."
>
>I've copied my short explanation of how to subscribe and unsubcribe too
>many times to do it again; and it is clear that these folks are either
>doing this out of spite, are not reading any of the messages we send them,
>or think it funny.

I agree with you to a point, Tim.  They probably haven't read the 
messages about how to properly unsubscrive.  Not because they are 
dweebs or because they think it's funny.  they probably haven't read 
the messages because they have 2 or 3 thousand messages in their 
inbox and they're all from cpunks.  Unfortunately, this time, I have 
to give them the benefit of the doubt for being ignorant.  I don't 
think they're being vindictive.

How many of them have posted Unsub messages after being told the 
proper way to unsub?

Brad


This may kill off the Cypherpunks list even where Detweiler's massive rants
failed. (Now that Detweiler's cabin in Montana has been raided, and one of
his tentacles carried off, who will fill his shoes? Vlad the VZNuri is well
on his way to matching Detweiler's volume, if not his obsessiveness.)

--Tim May


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> I agree with you to a point, Tim.  They probably haven't read the 
> messages about how to properly unsubscrive.  Not because they are 
> dweebs or because they think it's funny.  they probably haven't read 
> the messages because they have 2 or 3 thousand messages in their 

It is clearly explained in the Welcome message, that this is a 
high-volume list... And the instructions to unsubscribe are right there, 
along with the message saying that you should save those instructions in 
case you do want to leave.

I have an idea....

Create a special "unsubscrive mailing list". Anyone who sends
"unsubscrive" to a mailing list is removed from that list, and placed on
this special "unsubscrive list". When anyone is annoyed by the latest wave
of "unsubscrive"s, they can (after first moving the offenders to the
special unsubscrive list) send their own "unsubscrive" messages out to
that list, which will then copy it mailing-list-style to everyone who has
improperly used any mailing lists. The idiots on the list will also try to
send out their own "unsubscrive" messages trying to get off the special
list, which will of course end up back in their mailboxes and in the
mailboxes of all the other idiots. 

Eventually they will "graduate" by figuring out the CORRECT way to
unsubscribe, and the list server will obey any unsubscribe commands it
actually recieves. Having learned the hard way, they will never forget.

Good idea, or what? :)

> I have an idea....
> 
> Create a special "unsubscrive mailing list".

It used to exist a few years ago.  It was called the "Clueless Users
Mailing List".  The idea was that somebody annoyed by a clueless user's
sending subscribe or unsubscribe messages to a list would subscribe the
clueless user to the clueless users' mailing list, where the clueless
users would all get each other's "help" and "get me out" and "unsubscrive"
messages, but would not get any help from clueful folk, until they figured
out how to use the appropriate "-request" address. 

--apb (Alan Barrett)

In Reply to the Message wherein it was written:
[elided]
>The idiots on the list will also try to
>send out their own "unsubscrive" messages trying to get off the special
>list, which will of course end up back in their mailboxes and in the
>mailboxes of all the other idiots.
[elided]

This is so deliciously and diabolically clever it approaches genuine
Satanism. I salute you, Sir.

And here, all I was imagining was a pro-rated (to the number of parsable
errors in the sender's attempt) automated mailbomb (min 10 identical msgs)
with full instructions at every step of the way how to avoid each and every
land-mine... I grovel in humbleness at your screen. ;)

   dave


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