[fa.info-cpm] how to get your name removed from the list.

info-cpm (12/15/82)

>From RMS.G.BANDY.MIT-OZ@Mit-Ml  Mon Dec 13 11:09:07 1982
To: info-cpm@BRL
Via:  Mit-Ml; 11 Dec 82 9:59-EST
Via:  Brl; 11 Dec 82 10:14-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 11 Dec 82 10:26-EST

look people, this is getting silly. i can't do a * thing about
who is or isn't on the mailing list, and neither can 99% of
the other people who are on it.

there is a de-facto standard for mailing lists. if the list is called 
BRAIN-DAMAGED@HOST  then all requests for changes of address,
additions, deletions, etc should go to BRAIN-DAMAGED-REQUEST@HOST not
to the whole #%$^%&#^$* list. 

the next person to adct brain-damaged after this message gets out
will recieve the entire source code for a PDP-0 cobol
compiler in his mailbox. CUT IT OUT!
					disgusted,
					-andy
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info-cpm (12/16/82)

>From Seiler@Mit-Xx  Mon Dec 13 21:36:50 1982
To: RMS.G.BANDY.MIT-OZ@Mit-Ml
Cc: Seiler@Mit-Xx
Remailed-Date: 11 Dec 1982 1921-EST
Remailed-From: Larry Seiler <Seiler at MIT-XX>
Remailed-To: info-cpm at BRL
Via:  Mit-Xx; 11 Dec 82 19:13-EST
Via:  Brl; 11 Dec 82 19:21-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 11 Dec 82 19:31-EST

Andy,
    I agree that it is irritating to get all these "please remove me from
the list messages."  However, these people don't send their message to the
list just to irritate you (and me).  They do it becuase they don't know
any better.  So telling them about the XXX-REQUEST@HOST standard is
reasonable and useful;  indulging in gratuitous insults and threats is
not.  C'mon, Andy Scott Beals:  we are people out here, not extensions
of your computer terminal.  And there was a time when even you did not
know what you were doing.

Larry Seiler

PS - My apologies to the people on the list who didn't want to see this.
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