[cobalt-users] Re: Re: Re: Unsubscribe? HOw to

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:36 PM -0400 9/12/02, David Lucas is rumored to have typed:

> Charlie, if you had read the entire list, you would see he said he
> tried.  Bruce said he checked the list and he is not listed with the
> address his email came from.

   YOU aren't reading the thread (one doesn't need to read the entire list,
only this particular thread); in the message I was replying to, said reply
you have quoted, Thom suggested he check the full headers to see if the
address with which he SUBSCRIBED was in any of the Received: header fields
(as is usually the case if no other addresses on the mail server are
receiving the message). I suggested that if he had that much sense, he would
also have figured out how to unsubscribe said address (also noting that
Thom's idea doesn't work if multiple addresses on the same machine are
involved, or if there are multiple redirector addresses involved, or some
other situations). I pretty much said straight out that it's pretty obvious
the guy ISN'T smart enough to get himself unsubscribed, since he posted to
the list, and obviously didn't bother to read the cobalt-list webpage which
clearly displays Bruce's email address for use in situations like this. Tell
me...can YOU unsubscribe him from this list? Can I? Can Thom? Of course not.
He should be smart enough to unsubscribe himself. Failing that, he should
contact the listmaster, which at least keeps him from displaying his
ignorance in public.

> Now, give us a real answer and stop
> saying RTFM as it is not working.

   I just did, and did previously, too: don't forget with which address one
subscribes, take responsibility for one's own subscriptions instead of asking
someone else to get you unsubscribed, and if all else fails contact the
listmaster directly instead of wasting the time of the entire list WHO CANNOT
HELP YOU ANYWAY.

   (*sigh*) But, again as a long-time listmaster, I can guarantee it will
happen again and again, since Mr. Menna is hardly the only person who could
use a set of Internet Mailing List Training Wheels. In the past week, three
different people on the _procmail_ mailing list posted to the list asking to
be removed. You'd think the subscribers to the procmail mailing list would be
a bit above the average, bright enough to figure it out all on their own, but
no...

         Charlie (who is quit with this off-topic thread, unless someone
                   can find some magical way to bring it around to Cobalts)