On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:29:31PM -0700, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
> Maybe an IQ test is needed?
Once upon a time, someone on the 'net decided that he had put up with
enough "remove me" and "unscribe" and "unsussubspcribe" messages.
So he set up a mailing list, whose name I'll omit here because
(a) it doesn't matter and (b) it formed a rather scatalogical acronym.
What's more important was how this mailing list worked: the only
way to get off of it was to send a subscription request to the
appropriate mailing list management agent, e.g.:
<mailing-list-name>-request@<mailing-list-host)
which is one of the oldest de facto conventions on the 'net, and is
now part of an RFC. (Oh...the way people got *on* the list was that
someone who was annoyed at them forged a subscription for them. This
took place in a time period when those techniques weren't well-known,
so it was a reasonably good assumption that only clueful people would
indulge in it. No longer true.)
The introductory message to the mailing list read as follows:
> Subject: Welcome, clueless user!
>
> Welcome to the [...], an intelligence test for the ignorant and impolite.
>
> You have been automatically added to this mailing list because you sent a
> subscription request like "UNSUB ME" out to the entire readership of a
> mailing list, instead of sending it to the list server or list maintainer.
>
> There is nobody of worth reading this mailing list. The only way you can
> become unsubscribed is to figure out the standard way of unsubscribing
> from an Internet mailing list. Until that time, you will get these
> messages regularly.
>
> If you made an innocent mistake in sending your "UNSUB ME" out to the
> entire list, then you will know how to unsubscribe from this list
> immediately and no harm will be done.
>
> If, on the other hand, you simply have no clue how to deal with mailing
> lists, you'd better start reading up on the subject before you go
> blundering around again. Your attention is cordially drawn to the
> newsgroups news.announce.newusers, news.newusers.questions, and
> news.answers.
>
> Final hint: the mailing list address is [...]
>
> Have fun.
Some of us subscribed ourselves to it to watch the ensuing mayhem.
No, I didn't come up with this idea. Darn it.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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