UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF, was [CLUE-Tech] Please Unsubscribe

[Jef Barnhart]

No need to get down off your "high horse". 

This is the second request that Chris has asked to be unsubscribed from
the list. Both times were met with,"Do it yourself." Gee... I thought
that the Linux community was helpful, this group more so. The comments
that I saw were hardly helpful. 

I am starting to question if I would want to be associated with people
like this. 

CHRIS,

The admins can sometimes be a little slow in getting this done. Please
be patient. Sorry about the comments from the insensitive clods in the
group.

LIST ADMINS,

Please unsubscribe Chris from the list.

Jef

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 08:19, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
> I've always found it the most helpful for a list admin to just unsubscribe
> the person and be done with it.  It lets the user move on to other things,
> it lets the list move on to more on-topic subjects, and it has the benefit
> of keeping a neutral image of the list.  I.e., person decides to check out
> Linux, and subscribes to a list.  Decides Linux is "too hard" or whatever.
> Wants to unsubscribe, gets yelled at.  Outcome: Not only is Linux too hard,
> but the community are jerks.
> 
> It doesn't matter that this is an inaccurate perception.  One person,
> however misinformed, can spread a lot of negativity if that was their
> perceived experience.
> 
> If the person is a hobbyist, it may not make a difference.  But what if
> it's a CIO (or future CIO) or high-level purchasing-decision type?  We all
> know that technical merit is only one piece of the puzzle.  It's entirely
> possible to torpedo a huge Linux install project through a few unfortunate
> words.
> 
> /steps off his high horse :)
> 
> Regards,
> Kirk
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