[kfor] [k f o r] Please unsubcribe me

[Gregory Taylor]

> this must be the most complete collection of unsubscribe messages to 
> any list I have ever seen in the past 10 years and this on a list that 
> hosts technology save people (at least I thought so) that should 
> really know that it will never help to post an "please unsubscribe me" 
> or "unsubscribe" or "I do not want to be on this list unsubscribe now" 
> or whatever to the list itself. 

The mass exodus is performance art - an interesting
countertheme to the reams of unattributed quoting of
n-year-old posts praising the coNNstruct (the ever-popular
Chomskyian "creation of concensus") that characterized the
end of the LEV list - lots of individual NOs mirroring the
regularly astroturfed YES. The infelicites of timing merely
made it a public "spectacle."

It would also appear that some fair number of those who
believed themselves to be subscribed unilaterally by some
malevolent force assume that they're living with the old
majordomo Dispensation (where an "unsubscribe" in
message line did the trick) or that the brave new world
is moderated (where this kind of thing happens all the
time. trust me). Neither one is the case. Happily, Rene
and numerous others have pointed the way to leave.
Soon there'll be no one here but... us.