UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF, was [CLUE-Tech] Please Unsubscribe

[Chris Yoerg]

I'm sorry to have caused such a problem.

Most mailing lists show links at the bottom of the page, with obvious 
notes like "to unsubscribe from this list, go to this link".  Had that 
been the case I would and could have done it myself (which I did thanks 
to the suggestion from Jef)

Unfortunately your cryptic link offered no such suggestion, hence my 
request.  Maybe your mail notes on the bottom of each e-mail could use 
some work..

I orginally joined the list to learn a few things about linux, to 
further myself.

What I learned is that there are assholes out there that are intolerant 
of people that want to learn, who have time to burn people such as myself.

I wish you all the best of luck in trying to work with other people.

Chris Yoerg

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 08:19, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
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>>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.
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>What, because it's a Linux list we have to bend over backwards for
>people who are too damn lazy to follow instructions? It's one thing if
>he'd tried to unsubscribe and there was an error -- but just being too
>damn lazy? 
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>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. 
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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. 
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>Zonker
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