On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Alan Deikman wrote:
> I am convinced that nobody lasts long in the mailing
> list game with a "why me" attitude. Can anyone top
> this?
<example of stupidity snipped>
I can certainly tie it with examples from extremely clueless people
who've subscribed to my list over the years. How about this one:
Along comes a subscriber who uses a one-word alias instead of his
name, confidentially mentioning that this is because he's so
important in his extremely serious profession that his life would
be at risk if he used his real name on the Net. (My "we have an
idiot" bells start going off at this point.)
Anyway, Mr Important posts some regular stuff, but then goes and
posts a message that clearly violates the list guidelines. Since
this is a moderated list, his posting is not approved for
distribution.
Mr Important has a hissy fit, demands he be unsubscribed. In
response, he gets a polite letter which includes the "how to
unsubscribe" directions. Ah, but he doesn't want to unsubscribe
himself - he's far too important for that! So instead he he
mail-bombs the list with about 100 massive messages (all forwards
of previous digests with nasty notes attached) and gets quite
pissed off when his ISP tells him he'd better stop violating
their user services agreement. :-)
His hissy-fit letters to me are quite hilarious, especially the
ones with subject lines like LEGAL NOTICE! in which he tries to
sound as frightening as possible, and threatens to sue me if I
don't unsubscribe him.
I filtered his mail to trash and ignored him completely after that.
I assume he finally unsubscribed himself.
cmc
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