Why Won't It Unsubscribe!
Mar. 14th, 2003 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
40cakesIn one day, I have received almost 300 pieces of Junk Mail, all from one place.
97.3 FM, a radio station I dig down here, decided to create a yahoo group mailing list. They sent out a few pieces of mail. That's not a problem.
The problem is that there were a handful of people who didn't want to be on the list, and rather than unsubscribing properly, they decided to just reply to the group with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in their subject, and rude words about unsubscribing in their text. And because this obviously didn't work, the handful of people just kept trying to send the message over and over again, until it angered more people, who tried to unsubscribe the same way, which angered more people, and so on.
I checked my email last night around 3:30 before going to bed. When I woke up and checked it at 10:30 this morning, there were 109 new messages, a majority of them from "John&Sue", whose subject lines went from "Unsubscribe" to "UNSUBSCRIBE!" and "WHY WONT IT UNSUBSCRIBE!" You'd at least think the two of them could figure it out together.
I unsubscribed, and feel bad because it isn't even the station's fault. They only posted 2 or 3 messages. But the message I posted before unsubscribing told the lot of them that they were illiterate idiots.
See? This is why I'm a kitty.
>^..^
97.3 FM, a radio station I dig down here, decided to create a yahoo group mailing list. They sent out a few pieces of mail. That's not a problem.
The problem is that there were a handful of people who didn't want to be on the list, and rather than unsubscribing properly, they decided to just reply to the group with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in their subject, and rude words about unsubscribing in their text. And because this obviously didn't work, the handful of people just kept trying to send the message over and over again, until it angered more people, who tried to unsubscribe the same way, which angered more people, and so on.
I checked my email last night around 3:30 before going to bed. When I woke up and checked it at 10:30 this morning, there were 109 new messages, a majority of them from "John&Sue", whose subject lines went from "Unsubscribe" to "UNSUBSCRIBE!" and "WHY WONT IT UNSUBSCRIBE!" You'd at least think the two of them could figure it out together.
I unsubscribed, and feel bad because it isn't even the station's fault. They only posted 2 or 3 messages. But the message I posted before unsubscribing told the lot of them that they were illiterate idiots.
See? This is why I'm a kitty.
>^..^
