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Re: AM I Going To Have to Be Really Rude to get Your Attention?

David Kummer ([email protected]) 

Did your mother think it was cute when you balled up your fists and screamed
as a little kid? Were you praised when you first discovered caps lock? How
about when you busted out the mad SAT word skills?
If you don't want to be taken seriously at all, telling people to behave
while having an online tantrum over an email list is an excellent place to
start. Is your doctorate in that? Or is it Online Trolling?

If the answer to any of these questions is no, learn to use your spam filter
or its equivalent, as already suggested. If you email client lacks that
option, get a new one, or make use of the delete button. Or even the
/do-not-read function. If you cannot master those, I would not recommend
using email any more.

(In other words, if you're not willing to accept spam as the solution, stop
creating it and making yourself look more ridiculously silly than any
wannabe unsubscriber in the year and a half I've been on this list in the
process. You're acting like a three year old who doesn't like it that his
mother put peanut butter instead of chocolate chips into the cookies she
just baked.)

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Please lurk close enough to the scene to overhear at least this much: what
> I have said several times: I am not willing to accept spam as the solution
> as to how to get rid of spam.
>
> I say to you what I said to the others: learn how to behave!
>
> Your site lacks a proper "unsubscribe" function, and that is
> UNCONSCIONABLE!
>
> Christopher Fulkerson
>
>
> ***************
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 2:12 pm, Renee Scherer wrote:
> > That which you originally requested is not spam.  If the administrator
> has
> > thus far been unable to attend to your request, why not simply add the
> > list
> > to your own spam filter?  This seems a viable solution if you are
> > unwilling
> > to wait.
> > --Renee, lurker
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Wrong.   Go to the page.   I can't get the passcode.   Intervention is
> >> needed.   You must have a webmaster.   Getting your email as spam for
> >> eternity is not a viable option.
> >>
> >> Not one of you have really read a letter I've written: in every case I
> >> tell you there's no way for me to get the passcode.   How many times am
> >> I
> >> going to have to say the same thing over and over?   Your page is
> >> lacking
> >> an important piece of functioning courtesy.
> >>
> >> Christopher Fulkerson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 29, 2009 1:50 pm, Fiat Knox wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I just sent you an email myself, now. I know that your email address
> >> is
> >> > valid, because it's the same one to which I sent an earlier email this
> >> > very evening - an email to which you replied, calling me "callow."
> >> >
> >> > However, you should by now know exactly what to do to remove yourself
> >> from
> >> > the list. You have been contacted by the great and the good on this
> >> list,
> >> > but the actual removal is entirely in your own hands. It's standard
> >> list
> >> > security protocol. You subbed; only you can unsub.
> >> >
> >> > Peace,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Alex.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Renee Scherer
> >
> > [email protected]
> > [email protected]
> > (224) 717-1894
> > University of Michigan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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