Unsubscribe, for the love of God?!!?

[Benjamin Barrett]

Ways to get off this any mailing list:

Instead of being rude,

1. You follow the instructions in the message that was sent to you when you
first subscribed,

2. If you forgot to save it or it got inadvertently deleted, you go to the
URL where you first found this list and follow the instructions there,

3. If you forgot to put the URL in your browser's memory so you would be
able to find it again without bothering people, you do a search on the Web
and try to find the URL so you don't have to bother all the people on the
list,

4. If you have trouble finding the URL on the Web, you apologize to the list
for your lack of foresight and inability to figure out your problem and
*politely* ask to be unsubscribed. Every mailing list has a moderator who
watches for people having trouble.

You wait a day or two because the moderator is a human being who is busy and
perhaps even on vacation. After you try all of the above, you send another
message because sometimes e-mail doesn't get delivered to everyone on the
list and maybe the moderator isn't aware of your problem. After that, maybe
it would be appropriate to be rude.

Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at ix.netcom.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Allison Hall
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:38 AM

> WHO DO YOU HAVE TO KILL TO GET OFF OF THIS DISCUSSION LIST??????