RE: Unsuscribe
I know, it's the next Microsoft consipiracy!! Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist
that one!!
Barry deFreese
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"Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster."
Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell
-----Original Message-----
From: Joyce, Matthew [mailto:MJoyce@ccia.org.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:55 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Unsuscribe
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:57:52 +0100, Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs1@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote:
> >
> >> It certainly is annoying, but I'd bet that most
> >> are just random acts of mistyping rather than concerted
> conspiracies
> >> of stupidity.
> >
> >I think it is an international conspiracy of stupidy that tries to
> >destroy us ... maybe they are even sent from an alien planet?
> >
> >Oliver
>
> No, that's something else. That's due to human nature,
> causing the collective intelligence of any group of people to
> be inversely proportional to the number of people in the
> group. For example, all the individual soldiers in the First
> World War knew that it was utterly stupid to charge machine
> gun nests across half a mile of swamp, but the Army as a
> whole didn't understand this.
>
> "Unsuscribe" messages sent to the wrong address are merely
> from some of Elizabeth Dexia's many children. (The original
> "From" line is suspect too...)
>
> Pigeon
>
>
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Surely the real question should why are they leaving.
People trying to leave this list should be interviewed first.
There should be a weekly stats, x joined, y left, z tried to leave.
Or perhaps there should be a strict one in/one out policy.
Certainly, casual leaving should be discouraged. It just not right.
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