From: Lester M. Stacey (lmstacey@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 10:53:22 MDT
A polite silence would have worked better.
>
> As a moderator of lists in the past, I can say in David's defense that the
> dozens of messages daily asking for help with trivially simple tasks for
> which the requester has already received clear instructions does get old,
> and occasionally I was not in the mood to be ever so gracious and helpful
as
> the user might have hoped. I can almost guarantee that your post won't
bump
> you ahead any in the line-up.
>
> -ben (who actually does keep the instructions sent to him by all of the
30+
> lists he's on, because the leaving procedures vary widely and I know I'm
not
> uber-genius enough to remember them all in my crammed little brain)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lester M. Stacey" <lmstacey@earthlink.net>
> To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:59 AM
> Subject: virus: blame David
>
>
> As you can see from below, I tried to politely leave.
> But David simply reminds me that I ought to have kept the instructions
like
> it suggested. See how stupid I am? I failed to take David's instructions
> seriously. David, I'm sure, keeps every instruction the web ever suggests.
> So, now I choose to stay. And if I prove to be a virulent strain of
organism
> (or prion)...blame David.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David McFadzean" <david@lucifer.com>
> To: "Lester M. Stacey" <lmstacey@earthlink.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:25 PM
> Subject: Re: unsubscribe request
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lester M. Stacey" <lmstacey@earthlink.net>
> > To: <webmaster@lucifer.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:43 PM
> > Subject: unsubscribe request
> >
> >
> > > I am attempting to unsubscribe.
> > > Your help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Did you subscribe to the mailing list? Did you keep the instructions
like
> it
> > suggested?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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