[Outages-discussion] (no subject) (Redend to the list.)

[Larry Sheldon]

On 10/8/2012 6:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Larry Sheldon" <LarrySheldon at cox.net>
>
>> On 10/8/2012 6:26 PM, Michael Schuler wrote:
>>> Collaborate and Listen?
>>
>> Do not use communications channels for communicating.
>
> Henh?
>
>> Chased off NANOG, chased off outages, guess it is time to give up
>> discussion lists as a place to discuss things..
>>
>> Really sad. Used to learn so much.
>
> Mailing lists work just fine, thanks.  Usenet actually does, too, though
> it's becoming as hard to find a feed as it was in 1981.
>
> The original poster was trying to unsubscribe using a protocol that
> never works, while receiving emails each of which says quietly in its
> footer how to do that very thing, and the other posters were having some
> fun making light of that.  No one was nasty; no one was chasing the OP
> off of this list or any other.  Or anyone else, come to that.
>
> I was about to pinch the thread anyway, as I thought it had gone on
> long enough... but I think this might be an overreaction, Larry?


My bad.  I failed to recognize correctly the significances it the "STOP".

That isn't even BITNET listproc, is it?

First time since I've been wrong in a long time--since lunch maybe.

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