On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:48:51PM -0700, Michael J Wise said:

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Can I please get taken off all nanog mailing list.

Some email programs will spell it out, but ... In the full headers, we see this:

List-Unsubscribe: <https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog>, <mailto:nanog-request@nanog.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Oh god how did this get here? I am not good with computers. Shouldnt getting on the list be a lot harder than getting off? Skill testing questions? 20 years ago, when we were young whippersnappers on nm-list ('new [forms of] music' list), we had much spam of this type, so we'd manually unsub them, then sub them to 'blackhole-list', which had a very clear daily email of instructions of how to get off the list. That didnt help. Some still people posting, even daily, to that list, asking to be taken off... sometimes arguing with eachother, even to the point of flame wars (!) - others even cooperating on trying to figure it out once and for all. Like a bunch of drunken sheep bouncing off eachother in a pen with the gate wide open, but no one ever bounces into the right spot for escape... Then some kids decided to take it over and discuss and trade commodore-64 juarez on it (and then, seeming to having a shred of clue, they were harassed by others for help to get off the list) til we noticed and figured we were abetting piracy, so we shut it down. Ah those were the days. (nods to old nm-listers, be ye out there.) /kc -- Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:40:43PM -0500, Lyle Giese said:

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Then some kids decided to take it over and discuss and trade commodore-64 juarez on it (and then, seeming to having a shred of clue, they were harassed by others for help to get off the list) til we noticed and figured we were abetting piracy, so we shut it down.

Ah those were the days. (nods to old nm-listers, be ye out there.)

/kc

Yep, the good ole days... Back then I started my business doing chip level repairs on Commodore 64's.

You know you can buy a C-64 now? Someone bought the name and created a PC in a case that looks identical to a C-64.

and runs a C64 emulator at 100x the speed of the original 64, meaning the games are unplayable without a nullop routine :) /kc

Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc.

-- Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.