Cypherpunks Death Penalty for "take me of" messages?

At 1:08 AM 4/18/96, Leslie Farnsworth wrote:
>take me of your emailing list

She (or he) can't even spell "off."

This clown also sent me the same message privately, so anything done to her
or him is only fair..

The Cypherpunks Death Penalty?


--Tim May


Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software!
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed.
---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1  | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

Ah, the new way to spam somebody.  Just forge an "unsubsrive" or "take me of"
messsage to cypherpunks.

John

could we please dispense with the posts cc'ing the list about
these idiots? I already never read posts by idiots because they aren't
in my list of people I read, but I have to read these replies.

	The proper steps to take when someone makes such a posting:

A) Flame them privately
B) Subscribe them to clueless@c2.org

> At 1:08 AM 4/18/96, Leslie Farnsworth wrote:
> >take me of your emailing list
> 
> She (or he) can't even spell "off."
> 
> This clown also sent me the same message privately, so anything done to her
> or him is only fair..
> 
> The Cypherpunks Death Penalty?
> 
> 
> --Tim May
> 
> 
> Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software!
> We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed.
> ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
> Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
> tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
> W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
> Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1  | black markets, collapse of governments.
> "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Timothy C. May writes:
> 
> At 1:08 AM 4/18/96, Leslie Farnsworth wrote:
> >take me of your emailing list
> 
> She (or he) can't even spell "off."
> 
> This clown also sent me the same message privately, so anything done to her
> or him is only fair..
> 
> The Cypherpunks Death Penalty?



There's lately been a spate of l00sers subscribing
unsuspecting people to various hugh-traffic mailing lists.

I'd be willing to bet that a number of the 'unsubscrive' people
we have been seeing lately have been subscrived by their "friends"
and have never seen the "welcome to cypherpunks" list message, or
probably any mailing lists welcome message for that matter.

One list admin I know of has to manually unsubscribe
president@whitehouse.gov from a motorcycle racing list
three or more times a week.


-- 
Eric Murray  ericm@lne.com  ericm@motorcycle.com  http://www.lne.com/ericm
PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03  92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF

Eric Murray writes:
> There's lately been a spate of l00sers subscribing
> unsuspecting people to various hugh-traffic mailing lists.
> 
> I'd be willing to bet that a number of the 'unsubscrive' people
> we have been seeing lately have been subscrived by their "friends"
> and have never seen the "welcome to cypherpunks" list message,

No. If you are subscribed against your will you DO see the "Welcome to
Cypherpunks" message.

.pm

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Eric Murray writes:
> >
> > I'd be willing to bet that a number of the 'unsubscrive' people
> > we have been seeing lately have been subscrived by their "friends"
> > and have never seen the "welcome to cypherpunks" list message,
>
> No. If you are subscribed against your will you DO see the "Welcome to
> Cypherpunks" message.

...which they disregard as unsolicited spam.

On my discussion lists, I put unsubscribe instructions in the message
X-Headers (which the clueless won't see, but which non-clueless targets
and their more clueful friends/administrators will); and on digests,
they're prepended.

-rich