[Standard] Specific Subject Lines and Internet "Lids"

[Larry Wilson]

At 01:03 PM 9/17/2002, you wrote:
>Good for you Tom! Obviously run by a machine or a person with
>zip brains!
>Bob
>PS...To List owner...Remove me too! And then fold up your gypsy tents and
>move on to another world:-)
>
>At 08:43 AM 9/17/02 -0700, Tom Seabury wrote:
>>Dear Whoever,
>>Let's see if I have this correct!
>>I subscribe to a  news group that hasn't had a single thing
>>on it for at least a year, and I try to help out a guy about
>>finding a battery, and I get a message:
>>"please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>>than "Re: Contents of Standard digest..."
>>
>>I tell you what, remove me from the newsgroups and
>>you won't have to worry about things like people not
>>being specific enough!!!
>>
>>It was a fun group....But I can't take that kind of B.S.!!!
>>
>>Tom Seabury

Hi,

I'm the person with out any brains responding to you rude and ignorant 
comments!

Yes, Tom, you are on a list that has not been very active.  It is active 
only when you, and others, on this forum desire to make it active.  It is 
like the 10M band -- often dead until someone says CQ!  This reflector only 
exist for you, the participants, or non-participants, as the case may be.

And, yes, you apparently did receive one of the automated responses built 
into this system specifically for digest users.   (Why anyone needs the 
digest version of such a low volume list is a mystery to me, 
though).  There is a good reason for it, too.  Many of us subscribe to many 
lists and have other email flooding into our in boxes.  In order to handle 
it, we depend on the subject lines quite a bit.  So, having a subject line 
that is just the digest number doesn't help much.  It is simple to copy the 
subject line of the individual message into your reply.  That's all.  And 
if that simple piece of net etiquette is too much BS for you to handle, 
then yes, move on to some other forum!  How about Channel 11?

And, so, Bob, if you've got the brains to figure out how to remove yourself 
from this list, it is you who should take your gypsy tent to some more 
hospitable environment.

If you're as clueless as you seem, send a message to the follow address for 
clear instructions (or you can look in the header of any message from this 
forum for a clickable unsubscribe link).

standard-request@mailman.qth.net?subject=help


73,

Larry Wilson KE1HZ
Moderator