"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:
At 3:02 AM -0500 10/28/96, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
It's ironic that I get such e-mail even though I'm not even subscribed to cypherpunks or coderpunks anymore. (I've been deleted from both lists several times w/o asking, apparently by the list owner; I resubscribed; so now majordomo@toad.com has been instructed to ignore all requests from me).
Nonsense. I haven't unsubscribed you, nor do I know anyone who has. Nor do I have any say over who is on the list and who is not. So far as I know, majordomo@toad.com has not been "instructed" to ignore your list requests.
Timmy May might be telling the truth for a change - he's so clueless about computers that he probably has nothing to do with maintaining majordomo and knows nothing about it. Here's what's been happening: several times over the last two weeks I received notices from majordomo@toad.com saying that I've been unsubscribed from the cypherpunks mailing list. I emphasize that I've never asked to be unsubscribed. Whenever I got such notice, I sent a "subscribe cypherpunks" back to majordomo, and would get back a "welcome to cypherpunks" blurb within an hour. About last Thursday, I was forcibly removed from the mailing list again, and majordomo stopped replying to any commands (subscribe, who, help) sent from any address with dm.com in it. The mail doesn't bounce; it just goes into a black hole. However, when I e-mail it "who cypherpunks" or "who coderpunks" from an address in another domain, I get a response (the list of subscribers) within minutes (so majordomo@toad.com is up) and I see that I'm no longer on either list. If the majordomo hasn't been "instructed" to ignore my attempts to re-subscribe, then it must have done so on its own free will. :-) And some space aliens in a flying saucer must have repeatedly unsubscribed me against my wishes. :-) :-) And Timmy May's credibility keeps growing by the hour. :-) :-) :-) I've sent a couple of responses to cypherpunks@toad.com to e-mails that were cc:'d to me. Apparently they _were distributed (I think so because a certain Timmy May clone sends back to me a copy of everything I send to c-p with the word "fuckhead" at the end.) I can't say that I miss the non-stop ethnic/religious flames and ruminations about "brute force attacks on one-time pads" much... --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps