Please remove me from your list as I like eating milk products and drinking it as well. From Ananda Raj. > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:42:36 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: remove me from this list -- etiquette FAQ > To: [log in to unmask] > > Lorie Engelhardt wrote: > > Please remove me from this list.? I am NOT lactose intolerant > > and I enjoy drinking and eating milk products. > > I just entered Lorie's email address on < > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=NO-MILK&A=1> for unsubscribing. > Hopefully, she will follow the instructions in the confirmation email and get on with her life. > > However, I am really baffled by such messages. > So, for your information, here's a short etiquette refresher: > > 1. If you have no interest in dairy avoidance, don't subscribe to the "no-milk" list in the first place. > > 2. If you receive a confirmation email, only confirm if you *really* want to subscribe. > > 3. When you receive a welcome email, *READ IT* and *SAVE IT* for future reference. It contains information on unsubscribing, posting etiquette guidelines, etc. > > 4. If you were subscribed by mistake, unsubscribe immediately following the instructions you received in point #3 above. > > 5. If at any point you decide you are no longer interested in dairy avoidance, follow the instructions you received in point #3 above. > > 6. *DO NOT* start spamming the whole list with "remove me" messages. We did not put you on this list, *you* did, so it is *your* job to take yourself off the list, not ours. > > 7. If you lost the instructions in step #3 and cannot think of any other way to find out how to get off the list (google "no-milk unsubscribe" anyone?), at least ask POLITELY. > > 8. The 220+ subscribers to the list don't care whether you enjoy drinking and eating milk products, sunbathing on the French Riviera or copulating with German shepherds. > > 9. If you disregard this guidelines, expect to receive responses from irate list members grumbling about people with room-temperature IQ and no manners. > > Sincerely, > A list member. > > > P.S., > > Don, can you attach the < > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=NO-MILK&A=1> link to outgoing messages? > The populace does not check headers nowadays. _________________________________________________________________ Join the Fantasy Football club and win cash prizes here! http://fantasyfootball.malaysia.msn.com