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Article #3282The clueless mailing list
From: Steve Simmons
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:48
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:48
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The Clueless Users Mailing list is now active. Below is a sample of the initial mailings. The first message is reproduced intact; the latter messages have been edited to disguise the clueless. The final response is particularly priceless. Disclaimer: I am not the maintainer of clueless. - ------ Clueless messages follow ------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 10:35:33 GMT From: clueless@mantis.co.uk Sender: Clueless Users Network Test System <clueless@mantis.co.uk> Subject: Welcome, clueless user! Welcome to the Clueless Users Network Test System, an intelligence test for the ignorant and impolite. You have been automatically added to this mailing list because you sent a subscription request like "UNSUB ME" out to the entire readership of a mailing list, instead of sending it to the list server or list maintainer. There is nobody of worth reading this mailing list. The only way you can become unsubscribed is to figure out the standard way of unsubscribing from an Internet mailing list. Until that time, you will get these messages regularly. If you made an innocent mistake in sending your "UNSUB ME" out to the entire list, then you will know how to unsubscribe from this list immediately and no harm will be done. If, on the other hand, you simply have no clue how to deal with mailing lists, you'd better start reading up on the subject before you go blundering around again. Your attention is cordially drawn to the newsgroups news.announce.newusers, news.newusers.questions, and news.answers. Hint: the mailing list address is clueless@mantis.co.uk. Final hint: most mail servers understand the "help" command. Have fun. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:03:10 GMT From: cantread@acronym.com Subject: hey Hey how did I get on this list? I tried control/alt/delete but I'm still on the list. <System Administrator> stop this crazy thing! /cantread =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:02:52 GMT From: smallboy@title.clueless.edu Subject: Re: Welcome, clueless user! Who the hell are you?? I never sent anything to your address. I think you received mail from the wrong person. If you want to be a nuisance, think twice or better yet, in your case, once. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:01:09 GMT From: rude@non.native.speaker.of.english Sender: Clueless Users Network Test System <clueless@mantis.co.uk> Subject: help Reply-To: Clueless Users Network Test System <clueless@mantis.co.uk> X-Mailserver: V-MailServer 1.22 what the *f..k* is this ? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:01:39 GMT From: threatener@publicly.funded.org Subject: Re: Welcome, clueless user! You know assholes like you think that you can play games with someone's personal email, but you picked the wrong person, because I am the last person who will give in to shit like you, I can simply stop reading mail at this account rather than do one little thing that you tell me to do. So keep sending junk here for /dev/null to read. Btw, I am a system admin- strator, I know more about mail servers than you ever want to find out, but then two can play this game. ------- End of Forwarded Message -- "You can't get here from here."
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,mi.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!hela.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Subject: The clueless mailing list Message-ID: <scs.725244518@hela.iti.org> Summary: clueless -- where the elite meet to greet Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: hela.iti.org Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:48:38 GMT Lines: 92