I've just unsubscribed from cypherpunks
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. (To date myself, Chuq's old "goodbye" postings are still the pinnacle of this for me.) It makes me very uncomfortable to write the Subject line, but it is clear and to the point; it makes things easier for would-be readers to decide what to do. And who said writing is supposed to be asy, anyway? :) Pot, kettle, guilty as charged, I suppose. In my defense, however, I want to explain that I've had many public exchanges with people on this list, and this seems the most effective way to let them know that they will now have to send me email directly. In particular, if anyone has a rational reply to my MS CAPI export issue, please Cc me. Later, /r$
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.
On 14 Feb 1996 19:56:38 -0800, you wrote:
Rich $alz is the author of INN, and responsible (as the original moderator of comp.sources.unix) for the propagation of all the best tools we have available today. Few people have contributed as much as he has to the spread of good free software.
I think you probably owe him an apology.
I'm way ahead of you. I had misinterpreted his letter, thinking him to be whining when he really wasn't. I've already apologized, and he's already accepted.
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