[Hallicrafters] Hunter's bounces

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Tom,

Hey Tom,
Son, get yourself a shot or three of caffeine, provided that you are not 
allergic to it of course, prop at least one eyelid open with a preferable 
not already employed toothpick, and pay attention.

I already posted to the Hallicrafters list that I do not have the ability, 
or for that matter the authorization, to remove this man from the list. Now 
he should have done this himself while he still had access. If his e-mail 
address changed Tom, was it not he who changed it? Hence, he should have 
known his previous address and should have gone to the 'mailman.qth.net' 
site and used his personal password to unsubscribe.

Now assuming your friend really and truly had less then no clue as to what 
the address he had subscribed to the Hallicrafters list was, well, every 
month, on or about the first day, the QTH.NET computers send each list 
subscriber a notice giving he/she the name of every list they are subscribed 
to, as well as the personal password for it. So your friend only had to look 
back to the first of any month to procure the information needed.

Now extrapolating even farther into the murkey vapors of 'should have - was 
going to - OOPS! I forgot lands, your friend could have sent me an e-mail 
and asked me for assistance. I have a list of each and every subscriber to 
the Hallicrafters list, as well as all the other lists I manage, and could 
have located his e-mail address. Since I am not able to, except in a true 
emergency situation, remove a subscriber from a list, and since each 
subscriber has his/her own personal password for every list they are 
subscribed to, and since no list manager has access to said personal 
password, I could not have removed him anyhow. However, I could have, and 
would have, called the system owner, Alan Waller, K3TKJ, at my own expense, 
and asked Al to please override the personal password and globally remove 
your friend from all lists he subscribed to on the QTH.NET system.

FYI: A global remove can only be done by Al himself. It is only used when 
there is a situation that demands a person, or group, or entity, be removed 
from every list on the QTH.NET system.

As soon as I 'saw" the multitude of automated "Sorry, but Mr. X no longer 
works here ..." messages, I called the QTH.NET office in DE long distance 
and left a phone message. Then I called Al's home number and left a message 
there also. Additionally, I sent Al an e-mail at his work QTH and forwarded 
a copy of the post I needed to have globally removed from the QTH.NET system 
ASAP. Finally, I sent Al a second e-mail to his 'K3TKJ at QSL.NET' address 
requesting the same action.

So Tom, old friend, all that I could do, was done a long time ago.

As for the subscriber who implied my incompetence and suggested that the 
list manager be replaced, I wonder what more he could have done then I had 
already done? This is a hobby. I am not a worker of miracles. If I were, I 
would go back on tour as a professional Magician/Illusionist and get paid 
for doing them! Even if my miracles were sleight of hand, optical and 
auditory illusions and other techniques of Legerdemain!

Take care Tom.

Duane W8DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Hunter's bounces


> To List Administrator:
>
> As Hunter is my friend here in Denver, and as we've just spoken of his 
> TOTAL INABILITY to remove himself from the reflector-list (his Email 
> address changed, and he's no longer AT the location of the old one), I 
> wonder if there's some way to remove his Email address & listing, to 
> prevent further "bounce" messages?
>
> Tom - WØEAJ - Denver
>
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