Re: Please shut up or answer this: how to unsubscribe

[Rémi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali com>]

Neil Cooler wrote:
> Heh, I am a mailman owner of over 200 lists, and about 50k users.  We
> used to use monthly password reminders and suddenly i'd get 5k messages
> from lusers aol com like:
>
> TAKE ME OFF YOURE [sic] LIST.  I DO NOT WISH TO RECIEVE [sic] YOUR
> NEWSLETTER ANYMORE.  IF YOU SEND ME ANYMORE INFORMATION TO MY INTERNET I
> WILL CONTACT AOL AND HAVE YOU REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET AND WILL CALL MY
> LAWYER.
>
> --LUSER
>
> Basically, no matter how simple the list is to use, people are still too
> lazy/ignorant/whatever to figure it out.

You might have been frightened by such a threat ... AOL being the INTERNET administrator :-)
Really an astonishing message !
This is a kind of DoS

> --neil
>
> On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 16:18, Lionel Lecoq wrote:
>
> > I don't know whether it will help much I am on another
> > list where the information is spelled out at the
> > bottom of each post and some people beg and plead for
> > days for information how to unsubscribe...
> > --- Loban Amaan Rahman <loban earthling net> wrote:
> >
> > > To the list admins, how about adding one more line
> > > (or something similar
> > > to the footer to help prevent more requests like
> > > this.
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > gnome-list mailing list
> > > gnome-list gnome org
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
> > > Please visit the above URL to unsubscribe.
> > /-------------------------------------------------------------------\
> >
> > > |   Loban Amaan Rahman  <-- anagram of -->  Aha! An
> > > Abnormal Man!   |
> > > |  loban earthling net, loban ugcs caltech edu, 
> > > http://i.am/loban  |
> > \-------------------------------------------------------------------/
> >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> >
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