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From: gst@spdcc.COM (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Stop Me Before I Kill!
Message-ID: <7741@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 91 08:08:53 GMT
References: <91154.115932ATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Reply-To: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
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In article <91154.115932ATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET> ATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>  ...A year ago some
>  doofus in Alaska signed me up to an INTERNET discussion forum (called
>  Native-Net out of Maine, I believe) without my permission...

I am the administrator of the NativeNet mailing list to which Gene refers.
Gene made two requests to me, and one to the postmaster on my system
(which also happens to be me :-).  I lost his first message, due to a
system problem, but I acted on the second one, send on 29 May - but made
a mistake which resulted in Gene's name not being removed from the list.
The third try (as always!) was a charm, and the deletion took place on
Tuesday, 4 June.

I offered profuse apologies to Gene concerning my slip-ups, and sent him
the name and coordinates of his pal in Alaska who had signed him up
originally.  Probably my most serious mistake was in not checking with
Gene originally to see if he really wanted to be on the list.

HOWEVER - I note from my records that Gene had been on the list since
October of 1990 (!) until just a few days ago, and I am left to wonder
why it took him so long to make his request to be removed, since it was
fairly simple for him to determine where the mail was coming from.

In any case, I have read the suggestions made in followup postings
concerning things one can do to "get even" - and suggest that such
tactics are rather ill-considered ("two wrongs don't make a right").

Again, my apologies to Gene for the inconvenience.

-- 
    Gary S. Trujillo                             gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts               {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst