From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 06:01:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA22997 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 06:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA22991 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 06:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.0/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29262; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:01:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19092; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:01:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:01:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Jim Shankland , jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, blh@nol.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ok, look folks In-Reply-To: <21075.844855496@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------