On Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:33:29 -0500, you wrote:
Normally, when people post notices proclaiming "Jim, I'm putting you in my killfile" or "I can't take it, you've ruined this list, I'm leaving!" I think it's among the worst kind of petty egotism.
I don't understand what the issue is. I used to use procmail for my filtering, and it worked fine with Pine (although it would have been nice to thread my mailing lists). Now, I use Forte's Agent, which gives me a newsgroup-like access to mail folders _and_ auto-filtering. So I have no problem with the mailing list -- if I want to ignore a thread, I just don't look at it. I also filter out all subscribe and unsubscribe requests into a "Bozos" mailing list, and I can easily ignore "I'm leaving" style messages by not looking at them and letting them go away on the next purge. If you don't know how to use the right tools, or you are not able to, or you aren't willing to, I fail to see how the members of the list are at fault. The people at fault are, respectively, you, your employer, and you.