Re: FN-FORUM: unsubscribe

date posted 13th June 2005 22:37

In freelance.forum, (Carrie) wrote in
[EMAIL REMOVED]

>>
>although I have been lurking and unlurking for quite a while, I still
>don't recognise most people's emails,
>{apologies marc)

De nada.

> and I am quite sick of people immediately jumping on people who can't
>operate the list and want to leave, there is a thread about once a
>month, and its dull. why make people feel stupid? so I reacted on
>instinct, and fired off a two second email
>perhaps if marc wanted to communicate that he was going to be away for
>a bit he could have done so.

No, I'm going away permanently, because:

1) The signal/noise ratio in here is dropping through the floor;
2) The incidence of trolls/drive-by postings/flamewars is on the up;
3) The list software does not recognise and ignore "out of office" messages
etc.

>rather than sending a mail which to the casual viewer looked like
>another newbie who couldn't cope with the influx of emails.

I send the mail because the unsub link *does not work*.
It claims to have never heard of me.

--
Marc

There are 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand binary, and those who don't