[Tfug] remove from mailing list

[Terence Rudkin]

Party Pooper

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
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>  On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:31:38PM -0700, John Karns wrote:
>  > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:20 PM, slvrbeard <slvrbeard at cox.net> wrote:
>  > > Please, Please, Please remove me from your mailing list.
>  > >  Frank
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>  > Please, Please, Please stop bugging us about your stubbornness and
>  > inability to follow the link at the bottom of each and every tfug list
>  > msg you get, which has instructions on how to get off the mail list.
>  > How did you get on in the first place?  To get off the list, just do
>  > the converse to what _you_ did to get on!
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>  Here two suggestions for dealing with those hapless subscribers
>  who annoy everyone with repeated requests to be unsubscribed.
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>  Suggestion one: Install a filter which auto replies with instructions
>  on how to unsubscribe.  The danger here is that if the filter
>  identifies a false positive, you have inadvertently spammed someone.
>  Your filter could confirm with you before replying, which would
>  certainly improve its accuracy, and help train it.  However, that
>  doesn't satiate the nagging desire to flame someone for violating
>  netiquette.  We live in an age where many of us are overloaded with
>  information.  Even if it takes only a moment to reply to someone who
>  failed to see the "obvious", these minor distractions/annoyances
>  could, in principle, add up to the point of overwhelming us.
>  Furthermore, some of these people won't even bother to read your kind
>  and thoughtful suggestions; instead they expect that a sufficient
>  amount of whining will produce the desired result.  This leads to...
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>  Suggestion two: Forward every list message you receive to the
>  individual requesting to be unsubscribed, and adorn it with
>  instructions to unsubscribe in large red font.  Rationale: It is
>  reasonable to assume that in most cases, the individuals who spam a list
>  with such requests are, themselves, experiencing a certain level of
>  annoyance.  The level of annoyance has not, however, reached a
>  threshold of intolerance, and so they merely send nagging messages to
>  everyone, rather than taking matters into their own hands.  The point
>  here is to "up the ante", in something resembling a DDOS.  The more
>  people that employ this strategy, the more effective it is.  For
>  example, whereas previously the person was receiving a handful of
>  messages a day from the list, he is now receiving a hundred, all with
>  flaming red instructions on how to unsubscribe.
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>  - --Rob
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