From patrick@athos.med.auth.gr Fri May 12 09:10:24 1995 Return-Path: Received: from athos.med.auth.gr by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA01708; Fri, 12 May 95 09:10:24 EDT Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 15:33:12 -0200 (GMT-0200) From: Patrick X-Sender: patrick@athos To: Alan Bawden Cc: Frank=Lindgreen%DATLING%HHASPR@lng.hha.dk, CUBE-LOVERS@life.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: unsubscrib In-Reply-To: <8May1995.031910.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a complaint to make about the way mr. Allan Bawden treats cube -lovers. 1)Alot of people are not sure how to join a group when they start out to join one. In fact in most cases the people are new to the Internet , and in order to learn how to do things in the famous net , they can join a news group . (I am not sugesting that joining a news group teaches them about the internet but its one of the things they can do) 2)Now if Mr Allan responds to their mistakes very rudly ,e.g On Mon, 8 May 1995, Alan Bawden wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 May 95 09:11:57 DST > From: Frank=Lindgreen%DATLING%HHASPR@lng.hha.dk > Subject: unsubscribe > To: CUBE-LOVERS@life.ai.mit.edu > Cc: > > unsubscribe > > For crying out loud, do -not- send administrative requests to the -entire- > mailing list. You're the third idiot to make this mistake recently, so I > guess I really do have to bother everybody myself with a reminder. > 3)"you're the third idiot--" etc I mean one gets quite upset about the whole thing and one begins to question if it's worth it joining the news group if they are so rude. I can assure you it's a good thing we communicate by computer, because a lot of harm might have been caused on the person of Mr. Allan were he speaking straight to a person---I'm sure he does'nt speak that way to anyone (even to his kids should he be married with children) 4)I sugest Mr. Allan be firm but polite . It's best to keep the correspondence bussness - like. In that way we still remain friends ,and quite understand what is expected of us to do. > THINK! THINK! THINK! If 5) It sounds like Mr. Allan thinks that the qube member doesn't think. For people interested in cubing thats an insult. We think of ourselves as people who can think --on an overage better than most people. you wanted to stop your subscription to a > magazine, would you send postal mail to -all- of the other subscribers? > > Send all administrative requests to: > > Cube-Lovers-Request@AI.MIT.EDU > > Everybody got that? > Medicine is for every one Bravo to Doctors without frontiers Zimbabwe will always be there