Maybe that's the same trick that got him on the list in the first place... -rishi
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Wade Richards wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:36:44 MDT, John Galt writes: > >Yeah, but when's the last time you heard from him? Methinks that he got > >hit by a clue-by-four or is otherwise incommunicado... > > I can't be 100% sure, but I think I know how we were rid of Layne. > > First of all, it was obvious from his posting that he didn't want to be > removed from the list, he wanted to e-mail obscenities in reply to each > message he received (he even said "I don't want to have to click anywhere > to be removed, you &##%#$#^# should remove me", or something to that > effect). Telling him how to unsubscribe was simply "feeding the troll". > > I sent Layne a polite message explaining how to remove himself from the > list. The subject of the message was "unsubscribe", and the "Reply-to" > header of the message was "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > A assume that Layne replied to my mail with yet another string of insults. > I also assume that Layne was not smart enough to notice that the > "Reply-to:" field was set to someone other than me. I assume that the > list-processing software at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is > smart enough to unsubscribe someone if the subject is "Re: unsubscribe" > instead of just "unsubscribe". > > As I said, I'm not 100% sure it was my trick that got rid of Layne, but > his messages did stop very shortly after I did this. > > So now everyone has a new trick to use the next time some 14-year-old gets > subscribed to a mailing list and wants to demonstrate his power by > annoying everyone. > > --- Wade > > PS: Yes, I know that this mail is full of assumptions pretending to be > facts. They're all educated guesses. If you happen to *know* that one of > my guesses is wrong, please let me know. If you have a different guess, > then we can disagree quietly. > > -- > /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Wade Richards --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | Fight SPAM! Join CAUCE. > / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail | See http://www.cauce.org/ for details. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >