tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 12 15:18:59 1995

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Re:unsubscribing, or ** DO NOT READ ME **

I may have this wrong but I gather that if you put anything that even
remotely looks like a command in the "SUBJ" line the listserver blows off
you message even if the body so formated correctly.  I had to change from
one machine to another and was able to sign myself off -- it took two
tries.

Rest assured   i t   c a n   b e   d o n e  ! ! ! ! !

Qeygh

At 18:11 05/12/1995, [email protected] wrote:
>Dear Sir:
>
>I received your email entitled "*** README ***" which you posted to
>the tlhIngan-Hol mailing list. Since I have attempted several times,
>with no success, to unsubscribe from that particular mailer, I was
>delighted to find such clear and unequivocable instructions on how
>to do so. I immediately did as instructed, and heaved a sigh of
>relief, content that I had finally managed to remove my name from
>what I have come to regard as "the mailer from Hell".
>
>You can therefore imagine my chagrin, when only moments later, I
>recieved a message from [email protected] whose content was to the
>effect that I could not unsubscribe, because I am not, in fact,
>a legitimate member of the list. I found this to be puzzling, and,
>thinking that I may have somehow misunderstood the instructions,
>attempted, once again, to unsubscribe. This time, however, rather
>than trusting to my own meager typing skills, I "cut and pasted"
>the purported unsubscribe message directly from your original
>missive. Once again, this effort was followed almost immediatly
>by receipt of a message attesting to my non-existence vis-a-vis
>this particular mailer.
>
>Shortly after the preceding event, seemingly during the period
>during which I had chosen to take my lunch-time break, it seems
>that I was once more the recipient of a message that was posted
>to the regular tlhIgnan-Hol mailing list.
>
>These events lead me to believe that, despite following the specified
>instructions as faithfully as possible, I have once more failed to
>extricate myself from the insidious clutches of your relentless
>list.
>
>Furthermore, I am confronted with a conundrum: If I have
>indeed performed the actions that you purport will produce the
>desired result, and yet that result has not occurred, it may
>be that I, and others like me, am not, as you so tactfully put it,
>a "dolt", but that (and I hope that you appreciate my reticence
>in making such a suggestion, but it does, somehow, seem to be
>warranted) you (please do not take this personally, and feel free
>to except yourself should you feel that the implication does
>not, in actuality, apply) don't know what you're talking about?
>Could it be that I, and possibly others, are participants in some
>exceptional condition that invalidates your proposed solution?
>And that perhaps we deserve not your scorn, but your aid in
>extricating ourselves from a difficult and uncomfortable
>situation?
>
>But no. Compelling as the evidence is for this conclusion, I must
>cast it aside, because I have your heartfelt assurance that this
>could not be the case, and since you assert that you are a thoroughly
>knowledgable individual, it would be presumptuous to question your veracity.
>I can therefore only cringe before my own inadequacy, and resolve to
>bear more bravely the burden and torment that I have brought upon
>myself by once having had the temerity to request inclusion in your
>august distribution list.
>
>I remain, therefore,
>your humble servant and accused fool,
>
>Clark
>[email protected]

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