unsubscribe or-talk

[Michael Cozzi]

Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:42:56 -0400 Michael Cozzi
> <cozzi at cozziconsulting.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dan Collins wrote:
>>     
>>> As was noted the last ten times (by my count) someone did this, and as
>>> you were told when you registered, and as you are told in every email
>>> sent by this list, and just like any other mailing list using this
>>> software, of which there are a great many, your message says this:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Subject: unsubscribe or-talk
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> and a few lines later,
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> X-To-Get-Off-This-List: mail majordomo at seul.org, body unsubscribe or-talk
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Apparently, the illiterate still manage to learn how to subscribe
>>> to mailing lists (perhaps their kids show them how?), though to what
>>> purpose is anyone's guess.
>>>   
>>>       
>>    One of the things I love about being an IT Professional is, in 
>> general, being really smart. One of the things I hate about being an IT 
>> Professional is when the "really smart" look down their nose at someone 
>> who apparently can't do something simple.
>>
>>    USENET from 1992 is pretty much finished and I would personally be 
>> gratified, not that it matters, if you just explained the proper command 
>> to the guy instead of proving to me, and everyone else, that indeed you 
>> have mastered Majordomo.
>>
>>    I, for one, wasn't impressed. There's probably a good amount of 
>> "user class" subscriptions to this list. Try to remember that those 
>> folks actually get attention from women, and have what we, the IT 
>> People, only dream of: Lives.
>>
>>    Yes, I've had a bad day. But please... be nice.
>>
>>     
>      Actually, most/all of what he posted was a quotation without citation
> of me from several weeks ago, IIRC, when yes, I had had a bad day.  However,
> it doesn't matter whether a person is familiar with majordomo, listserv, or
> other mailing list software.  What matters is whether they can read and
> bother to do so.
>      FWIW, I responded privately to the OP in the current case, quoting and
> undercareting the header in question and asking him to unsubscribe himself.
> He then wrote back, asking me how to do it!  So I wrote once again, stating
> that I couldn't believe it, this time placing a large, vertical arrow below
> the undercareting and pointing upward toward it.  That time he finally got
> it.  Sigh.  If you can think of any excuse for that, I'd love to read it.
>   

    Scott,

    I'll just let my comment stand on it's own merits.

    Michael