UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF, was [CLUE-Tech] Please Unsubscribe

[Jason English]

I think the pill they need to take is commonly
referred to as Pamprin.

--QB
--- "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:40, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> wrote:
> > What, because it's a Linux list we have to bend
> over backwards for
> > people who are too damn lazy to follow
> instructions? 
> 
> Maybe you should bend over backwards because its a
> nice thing to do?  We
> are, after all, talking about a simple unsubscribe
> request.  Annoying,
> maybe.  Difficult to honor, not really.  And really
> not worth all this
> fuss, I think.
> 
> > It's one thing if
> > he'd tried to unsubscribe and there was an error
> -- but just being too
> > damn lazy? 
> 
> Hate him for his laziness if you like.  But geez,
> Zonk.  You're getting
> pretty riled for something pretty simple.
> 
> > I've got news for you, very few mailing lists are
> tolerant of this kind
> > of crap. This is netiquette 101 -- if you opt-in
> to a mailing list, you
> > take the responsibility to opt back out. If you
> can't be bothered, maybe
> > you don't belong online. 
> 
> Is this the attitude you take in your articles for
> Linux Magazine - "if
> you're too lazy to figure this out then don't bother
> reading my
> article"?  Are you writing for the technically savvy
> crowd or the
> unwashed masses?  If the latter, I hope this isn't
> the attitude you
> start with.
> 
> It's been awhile, but this doesn't sound like the
> Zonk I used to know. 
> Relax, dude.  Just unsubscribe the guy and be done
> with it.  If you
> don't have the admin access to do so, then I really
> have to ask "Why
> does this bother you so much?"
> 
> > If this is a CIO, they'd go with Windows because
> Linux would seem too
> > hard anyway...if they can't handle a simple
> Webpage to unsubscribe from
> > a mailing list, they're not a prime candidate for
> Linux either. 
> 
> This is the old Unix attitude.  Welcome to the club
> Zonk.  It will do
> little, however, to expand the appeal of Linux.
> 
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel           |
> The Graphics Muse           |  I don't have an
> attitude problem.  You have a 
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org  |  perception problem.
> http://www.graphics-muse.com 
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