[html5] Suggestion to close this list

Thomas Wauchop twauchop at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 13:43:58 PDT 2017


Please remove me.

> On Aug 28, 2017, at 16:23, Brian Tremblay <webmaster at tsmchughs.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/23/17 9:38 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Since the traffic on this list is extremely low and there's a bit of work involved in keeping it running I suggest we discontinue it in favor of Stack Overflow
>> Any objections?
> 
> I like (or used to like) mailing lists. I like this one less after the recent spate of utterly clueless "unsubscribe" messages sent to the list, instead of the unsubscribe address. My favorite so far is this one:
> 
> On 8/24/17 2:36 AM, Paulotuatail at aol.com wrote:
> > Are you [#$#**#@!*] thick? READ my email.
> 
> Nice. Clueless *and* rude. Of course it's an html email; of course it has has a graphic for his signature; of course it's an aol address.
> 
> Admittedly, the list message headers are wrong, but still, it took me about 30 seconds to find the correct unsubscribe address.
> 
> Maybe it's time to let mailing lists go the way of usenet and dodo birds.
> 
> /sigh
> 
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> Brian Tremblay
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