[volunteers] Passive-aggressive patrol

[Rick Moen]

Presumably from one of our small coterie of longtime passive-aggressive 
shithead regulars, trying to get in a shot from under cover of anonymity.  
Paul, Mark, feel welcome to consider this a complaint (from someone
unwilling to identify himself -- and, no, the throwaway address in
question has zero history and isn't a listmember, and he's identifiable
only as a Windows-using Earthlink user posting from a pacbell.net DSL
line):



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 From: sharksnut at gmail.com
 To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
 Cc: mark at cosmicpenguin.com
 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:06:31 -0700
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 Subject: Re: [svlug] I unsubscribed the svlug list from the goddamn loomis list

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:32:18 -0700, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> =
wrote:

>Quoting Mark S Bilk (mark at cosmicpenguin.com):
>
>> So ignore the unsubscribe verification message that just came through.
>> I already responded to it.
>
><hat=3D"just another subscriber">
>I'm guessing that your action (effectively) caused the two additional
>off-topic messages to come through from that address, for a total of
>three.  I salute and appreciate your quick intervention, Mark, but, in
>the future please consider giving SVLUG's listadmins an opportunity to
>blackhole (or otherwise handle) the offending address, first.  If you'd
>done so, we would have had only one intruding message reach our hundreds
>of subscribers, instead of three.  </hat>

That's a tad hypocritical, don't you think?  Was their a reason for you =
to
copy the entire list on *this email*, except for the ego-feed of giving =
Mark a public spanking?



 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:24:47 -0700
 From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
 To: sharksnut at gmail.com
 Cc: mark at cosmicpenguin.com
 Subject: Re: [svlug] I unsubscribed the svlug list from the goddamn loomis list

Quoting sharksnut at gmail.com (sharksnut at gmail.com):

> That's a tad hypocritical, don't you think?

Since you ask, no.  And by the way, whom am I speaking with?  (I
personally doubt that your mom addresses you as "snarksnut".)

> Was their a reason for you to copy the entire list on *this email*,
> except for the ego-feed of giving Mark a public spanking?

Mu.  (Look it up.)

1.  I actually appreciated Mark attempting to show leadership -- which 
    is why I so stated.  (Mark's a friend of mine, by the way.)

2.  I mentioned the reason why people, nonetheless, might want to give 
    the listadmins a few minutes to take corrective action before doing 
    something that might (and did) result in _more_ list spew, because
    -- duh! -- it could easily happen again.

Nonetheless, if you feel like complaining, and have the guts to do so, 
by all means do bitch to our esteemed officers.  I can definitely use
the entertainment, right now.

And, by the way, if you want to look more clueful in the future, try
letting people know when you suddenly drop offlist into private e-mail,
instead of just dropping the list address and leaving the "[svlug]"
listtag misleadingly in the subject header.



 From: sharksnut at gmail.com
 To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
 Cc: mark at cosmicpenguin.com
 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:30:07 -0700
 Subject: Re: I unsubscribed the svlug list from the goddamn loomis list (was Re: [svlug] I unsubscribed the svlug list from the goddamn loomis list)

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:24:47 -0700, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> =
wrote:

>2.  I mentioned the reason why people, nonetheless, might want to give=20
>    the listadmins a few minutes to take corrective action before doing=20
>    something that might (and did) result in _more_ list spew because
>    -- duh! -- it could easily happen again.

This could justify a private email with a cc to the listadmins.  But not
to the list at large, which is the point I made and you ignored.

>Nonetheless, if you feel like complaining, and have the guts to do so,=20
>by all means do bitch to our esteemed officers.  I can definitely use
>the entertainment, right now.

Yes, and it's precisely your brand of self-"entertainment" that has made =
you
so endearing over the years.



 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:38:49 -0700
 From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
 To: sharksnut at gmail.com
 Cc: mark at cosmicpenguin.com
 Subject: Re: I unsubscribed the svlug list from the goddamn loomis list (was Re: [svlug] I unsubscribed the svlug list from the goddamn loomis list)

Quoting sharksnut at gmail.com (sharksnut at gmail.com):

> This could justify a private email with a cc to the listadmins.  But not
> to the list at large, which is the point I made and you ignored.

I explained my reason -- which, ironically, YOU ignored.

Oh, and whom am I speaking to, again?  I asked politely; maybe you think
I have suddenly developed a poor memory?

And by the way, if you'd been paying attention, you'd realise that, when
wearing that "hat", I _am_ the listadmin.


> Yes, and it's precisely your brand of self-"entertainment" that has
> made you so endearing over the years.

I'm sorry, but _who_ are you, again?  I really can't take anonymous
trolls at all seriously.