How to remove yourself from the list

Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:57:14 -0500


Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers and
writing for myself
Indeed. This does get filed under the heading, "Unknown Origins". If
anything else, it is not aliens. I work with several here, all staff
members, and I am the only one with access to the system for sending out
messages. Hence the disclaimer at the top.
However, it could a grouping of them elsewhere on the list, and then
there is that peculiar e-mail relay problem.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6bone@ISI.EDU [mailto:owner-6bone@ISI.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Brian Chase
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:48 PM
> To: george+6bone@m5p.com
> Cc: 6bone@ISI.EDU
> Subject: Re: How to remove yourself from the list
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 george+6bone@m5p.com wrote:
> 
> > It's not clear why so many people are trying to leave the mailing
list,
> > [...]
> 
> Maybe an e-mail worm?  It makes no sense that there would be this many
> "remove" requests hitting the list so suddenly.  But then looking at
the
> message headers, there's mix of mail clients involved--everything from
> Outlook, to Netscape, to Pine.
> 
> Possibly it's a /wetware/ level e-mail worm where the people who've
> wanted off the list for a while are imitating the first message--due
to
> an incorrect assumption that sending "remove" will actually take them
> off the list?
> 
> Barring that, I'd say attribute it to aliens.
> 
> -brian.
> 
>