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Re: How To Use E-Mail Without Shooting Yourself In The Foot [was: none]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Tue Aug 26 00:56:55 1997
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
From: Bill Gribble <grib@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 1997 21:06:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jered J Floyd's message of 25 Aug 1997 21:33:25 -0400
Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU> writes:
> If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe to a mailing list, you should
> NEVER EVER send a message to the list asking to be added or removed.
> If the thought even crosses your mind, slap yourself about the head
> with a large fish. Repeatedly.
Except in the case of the pthreads mailing list, which is apparently
administered in an excessively laissez-faire manner. I have been
trying to unsubscribe for about 2 years, and I still get periodic
pthreads mails. I have been on probably 50 mailing lists in my time,
and I have never been foiled so completely in my attempts to leave
one.
I have yet to resort to sending unsubscribe requests to the list
(though if it helps, please consider this one!).
Bill Gribble
