[4776] in Kerberos
Re: How can I get off of this bloody list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Mar 9 20:52:05 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 10 Mar 1995 01:39:02 GMT
From: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
In article <9503091430.AA13466@iog.unc.edu>, lou@ncinfo.iog.unc.edu (Lou Sortman) writes:
|> Judging from the number of unsubscribe messages that I see on this list, I am
|> not alone.
No, you're not. There are a lot of clueless people just like you who don't
know the conventions of Internet mailing lists and don't bother to save the
addresses they write to when they subscribe to mailing lists, and then send
unnecessary traffic to the lists themselves asking to be unsubscribed.
Here's a clue: The address you use to unsubscribe from a list is the same
address as the one you used to subscribe to it in the first place. If you
don't know how to figure out the right administrative address given a single
message you get from the list, then save all the addresses you use to
subscribe to mailing lists.
Here's another clue: Not all lists are "listserv" lists. Before there was a
UNIX "listserv" implementation, "listserv" referred exlusively to BITNET
mailing lists. The kerberos@mit.edu list is not a BITNET mailing list, it's
an Internet mailing list.
Here's yet another clue: To get the administrative address of an Internet
mailing list, append "-request" to the list name, at the same host. I.e., as
someone has already pointed out, "kerberos-request@mit.edu".
Or generate unnecessary traffic to the entire list, and to everyone in the
world who gets the newsgroup into which it is gatewayed, by sending a message
to the list asking how to unsubscribe.
|> If I were truly evil, I'd spam the list so that I would get kicked off,
You already did.
In any case, I'm one of the administrators of the list, and I've removed you
from it (I figure that's the least I could do, after flaming you in public).
The change will take effect in the next day or so when the MIT mailhubs'
aliases files get updated.
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Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
