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I highly doubt the ticalc.org guys have majordomo configured so that people
can unsubscribe others...

Bryan

----- Original Message -----
From: Linus Akesson <lairfight@softhome.net>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: A83: Hayes ...


>
> In accordance with the prophecy, Jkhum98@aol.com uttered:
>
>
> > In a message dated 8/4/99 12:41:50 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > bomber912@hotmail.com writes:
>
> >> I thauth someone was going to bann those guys from Hayes from this list
but
> >>  nobody did... so I did it...
> >>
> >>  Well actually you can not ban anybody... I unsuscribed them.
> >>  choad_22@hotmail.com
> >>  480de3d1.24a30c57@aol.com
> >>  I remember those were the two guys bugging me, were there any others ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  For future reference... if someone bugs you, just e-mail
> >>  Majordomo@lists.ticalc.org
> >>  with the following command in the body of the e-mail....
> >>  unsubscribe assembly-83 <the guy's e-mail>
> >>
> >>
> >>  chao
> >>
> >>  ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()    ()()()()()()
> >>  () www.homonerdicus.cjb.net  ()    ()visit me()
> >>  ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()    ()()()()()()
>
> > That may have worked, but Majordomo might also send a confirmation
letter if
> > the person wants to unsubscribe, then it'd require that person to send
it
> > back to Majordomo, which these losers at Hays prolly wont, and continue
to
> > stay on the list... well whatever, I just know Im never releasing any
source
> > because of people like them. cya...
>
> > Jason_K
>
>
> I don't think majordomo sends unsubscription confirmation messages, though
> some other list servers might.
>
> However, unsubscribing someone else is NOT very polite at all, no matter
how
> badly they have been behaving. That should be up to the list manager, and
if
> the list manager decides that the culprits may stay, they should be
allowed
> to stay. At least we haven't been mail bombed by them yet... (and if we
ever
> are, we can take legal action against them, which would be fun. =))
>
> What if someone has been faking these mails from other people's accounts
(not
> very likely, but anyway)? What if choad_22@hotmail.com and
> 480de3d1.24a30c57@aol.com are two innocent guys who didn't realize these
> Hayes postings came from their addresses? Then you just unsubscribed two
> innocent people, and all they will notice in the near future is that this
> list will become rather silent.
>
> Although this was an unlikely example, the bottom line is stay away from
> unsubscribing other people!
>
> Linus
>
> - --- Linus Akesson ------------------------
http://linusworld.cjb.net --- -
>
>
>    "Parsifal -- the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it
>    has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20."
>                                                         -- David Randolph
>
>
>
>



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