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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, blh@nol.net, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ok, look folks 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961009090008.19159A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <21075.844855496@time.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > True enough, but sometimes people don't *know* what they
> > subscribed as.  Not everyone is all that knowledgable about
> > mail systems, or in control of the mail system they're using.

I've personally handled at least a half dozen cases like this in the last
year.  If they're even minimally gracious, it's no problem.  Having a
tantrum on the mailing list is not really great behaviour.

> 
> No problem.
> 
> 1. Send email to majordomo@freebsd.org saying "help".
> 2. It sends you back a list of commands.
> 3. You notice that one of those commands allows you to receive a copy
>    of all the users on a list.
> 4. You figure out which one you are and you send the deletion request.
> 
> I'm sorry, but this is an open and shut case of someone who found it
> easier to yell and scream than do his homework.  Not the best of first
> impressions, and certainly one which will stick with me for awhile.
> Fortunately for Jim, it's also unlikely that anyone will ever ask me
> for a reference.
> 
> 					Jordan
> 

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