[arin-discuss] FW: unsubscribe

[Nathan Miller]

I agree with the entertaining comment.  Personally, I think this is a
cleverly fashioned idea by Arin to remove all those who shouldn't be on the
Arin-discuss list anyways. =)  This is good for the rest of us who remain!
I would assume most of the 'unsubscribe' messages we see are from people who
are unfamiliar with what ARIN is anyways.

I just saw it this morning, someone replied to one of these announcements
that had a subject of "YOU CANNOT UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LISTBYE-MAILING THE
LIST!!!!!" with "unsubscribe" as their response!  Now that's good for a few
laughs for all of us! =)

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Nathan Miller
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net]
> On Behalf Of Paul Vixie
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:16 AM
> To: ARIN-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] FW: unsubscribe
> 
> > I think thats why the person was dumbfounded that the folks on the
> > list are ISP's.  One would hope that some of these folks had a clue...
> > The internet is doomed if its controlled by the people on this list.
> 
> i don't know if that's strictly true.  folks are saying "unsubscribe"
> because they see others doing so, in two ways.  first, they don't WANT
> to be on a mailing list where the main topic is "how to unsubscribe."
> second, they assume that if others are unsubscribing this way, that
> they also ought to be able to do so.  apparently LISTSERV would notice
> "unsubscribe" alone on a line in a body and do something with it, so
> there's some precedent.  i'll bet arin's "mailman" could be configured
> to act on these, since mailman has every other feature known to mankind.
> 
> in any case, "internet is doomed, film at 11" is a very old story.  i
> myself sang that song when abuse desks started rejecting MIME-attached
> spam samples on the basis that "they might contain viruses."  but here
> we are a half dozen years later.  apparently the internet is every bit
> as survivable as its urban legends indicate, though for economic causes
> rather than good design.
> 
> meanwhile this whole "unsubscribe" thread is very entertaining, sort of
> like watching people get their cars stuck in the mud on my driveway, and
> this time i don't even have to chain 'em up and pull 'em out.
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