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lol... nice vent :)
first rate!
Actually you make a
very good point. If people can't even unsubscribe from a mailing list how
do they ever expect to learn and use a operating system like Linux.
Aaron
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:41
AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe
Right - I must have sent the following message
to about 20 peope *today*
all trying to unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe
send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in
the
subject :
unsubscribe newbie.
or go to the web page and
unsubscribe via the web interface.
If you are still on the list and
want to get off it, then you can't just
send messages to it screaming to be
unsubscribed. You're sending email to
all of the rest of us - not the list
administrator!
When you signed up, you received an email with the
following instructions
in it - I presume you all just charged ahead,
deleted it and expected magic
to happen when you want to unsubscribe. Magic
only happens in the kernel -
something which you people are unlikely to
ever come to grips with because
you can't read and follow simple
intructions.
Christ - you pop onto this list, whine that Linux sucks
because it doesn't
support your electron microscope controller interface,
nor does it
magically configure every piece of hardware in your house,
including your
VCR, and expect someone to wipe your arses for you when you
want to unsub.
Unix is complicated. It's very powerful and there's lots
of it. If you fail
to follow intsructions to unsubscribe yourself from the
list, then you have
absolutely NO hope of ever getting it to work "just the
way you want it".
Right - now that rant's over, I'll apologise to the
others in here, and
especially to Jacob Bondre - this isn't directed to you
in particular, you
just happened to be the person I replied to when
composing this message. No
offence intended to yourself.
PEOPLE WHO
WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE -
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE TOP OF THIS MESSAGE
AND FOLLOW THEM.
SENDING 'UNSUBSCRIBE', EVEN WHEN YOU MANAGE TO SPELL
IT CORRECTLY, TO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] WILL NOT WORK!
GET
THAT?
IT WON'T WORK. WORK IT WILL NOT. IT WILL HAVE NO EFFECT.
NOTHING WILL
HAPPEN. YOU WILL NOT BE
UNSUBSCRIBED.
UNDERSTAND?
YOU NEED TO SEND A MESSAGE TO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] WITH A SUBJECT OF
UNSUBSCRIBE.
A SUBJECT OF
"UNSUBSCRIBE"
NOT A SUBJECT OF "UNSUSCRIBE", 3 COPIES OF "UNSUBSCRIBE"
IN THE TEXT PART
OF THE EMAIL OR ANY OTHER VARIATION IN SPELLING, POSITION,
FONT,
LANGUAGE,TYPEFACE OR ANY OTHER COMBINATION YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO COME
UP
WITH.
IF YOU STILL CAN'T WORK IT OUT, YOU REALLY ARE ON THE WRONG
MAILING-LIST
AREN'T YOU......
Now, have we all got that
clear?
Normal service will be resumed now......if you can call it
normal! :)
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations
Analyst
Jacob Bondre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 15/02/2000
10:07:02
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To:
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cc: (bcc: Steve
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