Re: Please add me to the "please remove me" mailing list

[Don Hopkins <dhopkins@...>]

Back in the day, there used to be an "educational" ARPANET mailing list 
called "please-remove-me", that was for people who asked an entire 
mailing list to remove them, instead of removing themselves, or sending 
email to the administrative "-request" address.

So when somebody asked an entire mailing list to remove them, somebody 
else would add them to the "please-remove-me" mailing list, and they 
would start getting hundreds of "please remove me" requests from other 
people, so they could discuss the topic of being removed from mailing 
lists with people with similar interests, without bothering people on 
mailing lists whose topics weren't about being removed from mailing lists.

It worked so well that it was a victim of its own success: Eventually 
the "please-remove-me" mailing list was so popular that it got too big 
and had to be shut down...

   -Don