Subject: Re: please take me off this mailing list
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 22:22:59 EDT
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:00:08AM -0400, Matt Kozusko wrote:
> Damn! I didn't think there were still people like this out there!
It's hard to believe this, but I actually see this at least weekly on a
mailing list that has gone to an extreme of point-&-click, such that the
"unsubscribe" function appears, as ours does here, in the body of each
message -- except as an HTML graphical object upon which one can click to
quit, as the text says. Yet still, people send, to the list, "unsubscribe
me" requests, these acts compounded by (also at least weekly) shouts and
murmurs to the effect of "read the &%$&^%%^#$ message for instructions
on how to quit!"
> Gene: Tim may indeed be the most helpful list administator ever, and he
> may remove you from the list personally, because he probably has the
> patience, but as a list member, you have full list-management
> privileges of your own account, which means you can delist yourself,
> by following the directions that are attached to the bottom of
> each message sent out on the list (see below).
Thanks for the nice words, but Gene removed himself, without the need
for intervention.
Now to slip into the role of a worried mayor who notices that the
population of his beloved farm community has lately dwindled to less
than 100 (what, was there an outbreak of plague lately?), I fear the
next census! If not for the most recent spirited series of outbursts,
I would be concerned that everyone had caught my own malaise.
At the present rate of shrinkage, we may need to call in a favor and ask
old Jerry to let us redistribute a bit of manuscript he asked us to hold
for safekeeping. Right now, it is being used to anchor one end of the
Brooklyn Bridge, but these things can be rearranged if need be.*
I'll let you (collectively) know.
--tim
*Before one of you goes berserk dismantling the Brooklyn Bridge, or
calling the Associated Press and CNN, I hasten to point out that this
sentence belongs alongside a specific "burst of candor" indicating how
the author of a certain book's flap copy lived in Westport with his dog,
Benny, a Schnauzer. [See me privately for details if the reference
eludes you.] The present remark is, in no uncertain terms, quite a bit
of misdirection -- also known in some circles as a baldfaced lie.
So, before anyone else unsubscribes, please speak to me about the new,
low, discounted rate for those renewing their subscriptions....
Cheers! Not a trace of malaise!
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