[arin-discuss] FW: unsubscribe

[Joshua Baer]

Sorry for contributing to this off-topic thread, but I feel compelled  
to point out this RFC for the List-Unsubscribe header (which is  
supported by this list) which was created about 10 years ago directly  
in response to a thread just like this one. I feel like such a  
failure that these threads are still happening 10 years later!

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html

~Josh


On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Divins, David wrote:

> My secret agenda is revealed.  I claim in public it was an  
> accident.  In
> reality it was a covert arin cleansing.
>
> -dsd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Nathan Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:03 PM
> To: ARIN-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] FW: unsubscribe
>
> 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! =)
>
> -------------
> 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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