UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF, was [CLUE-Tech] Please Unsubscribe

[Jef Barnhart]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 09:48, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 09:26, Jef Barnhart wrote:
> > 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. 
> 

My Bad. But thanks for proving my point that people are "insensitive
clods". I was making a statement about how they handled it. 

(HINT: It's not http://www.havenrock.com/). Because...

It scares me that you have your own domain.

A little tact goes a long way. 

We are all representing the "Linux Community". Our actions, our words,
will say what kind of Community we are. 

Read Micheal's post. I think that he says it better than I would.

> They were plenty helpful -- sometimes people need a swift kick in the
> ass just as much as they need a hand up. When you're being a lazy
> inconsiderate jerk, it's helpful if people tell you so you can stop
> being an lazy inconsiderate jerk rather than just coddling the person
> and letting them slouch through life leaving messes for other people to
> clean up.
> 
> If Chris is having trouble unsubscribing for some reason, he should say
> so and it should be attended to pronto, it is damn annoying to be
> subscribed to a list and not be able to unsubscribe -- but if the only
> problem is that he's too damn lazy to do it himself, then I don't see
> why the admins or anyone else should have to go out of their way to take
> care of a problem he's perfectly able to solve himself. Stop putting the
> blame on the admins and put it where it belongs -- squarely on Chris. 
> 
> You said something to the effect of questioning whether you want to be
> associated with "people like this." Ask yourself if you want to be on a
> list with a world full of people like Chris where half the traffic is
> "unsubscribe me." Better, yet, ask yourself if you'd want to work with
> Chris and have to depend on someone too lazy to unsubscribe from a
> newsgroup day-to-day in a work situation. "Hey Chris, did you get that
> report done yet?" "NO... I was hoping you'd do it for me." "Hey Chris,
> did you fix the Web server yet?" "No... you should do it for me." etc...
> 
> Zonker
> -- 
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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