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- From: ee.ryerson.ca!sizone!no_new_taxes (Read My Lips)
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:29:59 -0400
- Subject: Are you a clueless mailing list reader?
-
- > From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- > To: nm-list@reef.cis.ufl.edu
- > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:35:27 -0400
-
- Attacking Deep Structure <shaun@octel.com> writes:
-
- | MJM -- I have an idea. Why don't you create a new list to which any
- | person who sends a subscribe/unsubscribe message to a list proper
- | will be added, in addition to having his request fulfilled? This
- | way, a list will slowly be built up of people who simply have no clue
- | about how mailing lists work.
- |
- | Each day, a daemon will send a message out to everyone on the list, saying
- | something like, "You have been automatically added to this list because
- | you are an ignorant dipshit. There is no one watching this list; the
- | only way you can become unsubscribed is to figure out the Internet
- | standard for issuing control messages to mailing lists. If you had
- | followed proper etiquette to begin with, you would not now be on this
- | list. Later, d00d."
- |
- | This public service list would be available to all list maintainers,
- | and would have a conspicuous normal address like
- | "dumb-fuckers-sender." The brainless sods who were subscribed could
- | bleat like sheep to each other as they sent mail to the list trying to
- | get unsubscribed. I'm sure it would sustain itself quite nicely after
- | it had been operational for about a day and a half.
- |
- | This is a serious request.
-
- I've done it. clueless@mantis.co.uk, the Clueless Users Network Test
- System (aka the Clueless Users Mailing List). To subscribe, forge
- mail from the guilty party saying
-
- subscribe clueless
-
- and send it to clueless-request@mantis.co.uk. He can then happily reply
- to the regular mail messages, and have his replies sent to everyone else on
- the list. He can also send lots of "UNSUB CLUELESS" messages to
- clueless@mantis.co.uk and have them forwarded too. Eventually he'll
- discover the right way to unsubscribe.
-
- The regular mail message reads:
-
- > From: clueless@mantis.co.uk
- > To: clueless@mantis.co.uk
- > Subject: Welcome, clueless user!
- >
- > Welcome to the Clueless Users Network Test System, an intelligence test
- > for the ignorant and impolite.
- >
- > You have been automatically added to this mailing list because you sent a
- > subscription request like "UNSUB ME" out to the entire readership of a
- > mailing list, instead of sending it to the list server or list maintainer.
- >
- > There is nobody of worth reading this mailing list. The only way you can
- > become unsubscribed is to figure out the standard way of unsubscribing
- > from an Internet mailing list. Until that time, you will get these
- > messages regularly.
- >
- > If you made an innocent mistake in sending your "UNSUB ME" out to the
- > entire list, then you will know how to unsubscribe from this list
- > immediately and no harm will be done.
- >
- > If, on the other hand, you simply have no clue how to deal with mailing
- > lists, you'd better start reading up on the subject before you go
- > blundering around again. Your attention is cordially drawn to the
- > newsgroups news.announce.newusers, news.newusers.questions, and
- > news.answers.
- >
- > Final hint: the mailing list address is clueless@mantis.co.uk.
- >
- > Have fun.
-
-