Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:10:47 -0000
From: auvenj@mailcity.com ("auvenj")
Subject: [lpaz-discuss] Re: Freedom Summit News / Remove Requests
To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Ernie,
I am someone with lots of 'net experience. I was doing email and
bulletin boards in the mid-1980s, when the modems were 300 baud and a
message such as yours would take several minutes to download. :-)
Throughout all of that time, I have seen hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of "removal instructions" on the various boards and lists I have been
on. Usually they are just one line ("Click here to be removed").
Sometimes it takes a few lines to get the point across.
Yours is the first set of removal instructions that I've seen take 11
paragraphs. Congratulations. Some may try to detract from your
momentous achievement by noting that a person only REALLY had to read
the first paragraph to find out how to be removed.
Don't concede. All 11 paragraphs are vital. A person wishing to be
removed would be unwise to not have read the other 10 paragraphs.
After all, there might have been a fee associated with removal from
your list, found in paragraph #11. There was a joke list a while
back that was free to join, but the unsubscribe instructions
mentioned an "unsubscribe-fee" of something like $5. This was just
part of the joke, of course, but you can't imagine how many people
didn't "get it" and got REALLY pissed off thinking they would have to
pay $5 to get taken off the list. Their emails became some of the
jokes that the list would send out.
So, I don't know if it's a Guiness world record...but it's certainly
the longest remove instruction I've ever seen. Hold your head up
high Ernie, and be proud of your accomplishment. =)
--Jason Auvenshine
The Philosophy of Liberty:
http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf
--- In lpaz-discuss@y..., "Ernest Hancock" <ernesthancock@c...> wrote:
> (Scroll down for removal instructions from this list)
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