From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: [Bill Rizzi : re: how to get name removed from list] Article-I.D.: ucbvax.377 Posted: Thu Dec 16 04:13:23 1982 Received: Sun Dec 19 09:47:56 1982 >From CARTER.RU-GREEN@BRL Tue Dec 14 01:40:15 1982 Sender: CARTER.RU-GREEN@BRL Cc: RIZZI@Usc-Isib, info-cpm@BRL To: Andrew Scott Beals Via: Rutgers; 12 Dec 82 11:18-EST Via: Brl; 12 Dec 82 11:27-EST Via: Brl-Bmd; 12 Dec 82 11:31-EST From: Andrew Scott Beals i totally agree with the following. --------------- From: Bill Rizzi I think some sort of reminder sent periodically would help, as well as a general guideline sent to each person who gets themselves on the list. I certainly am not sure that I agree; the problem is irrelevant excess material sent to the entire list. The solution offered is sending more irrelevant material to the entire list. ------------------ info-cpm-request, are you listening? If there is one thing the poor maintainer does not deserve, it is sarcasm. better yet, i could just mail out all of the info-cpm archives.... hmmmm....... -andy Even as an @i(unattractive) joke, the threat to engage in this kind of destructive conduct troubles. It is contrary to the most important convention governing lists; that all net usage be governed by a spirit of cooperation and courtesy, particularly on the part of guest users. (Or does this user have a federal contract number?) This sounds more like bullying. The fact that the bully would have to spend six weeks saying M-X Split File in order to carry it out the threat might not be known to the novice user being threatened. If the occasional 'please remove' message bothers so much, why not spend a few moments hacking a function to search for messages containing those words and strip them from the Babyl file? Better still, do something constructive; hack COMSAT so it will redirect those messages to the REQUEST addressee automagically. _Bob