# Unsubscribe

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437 "2007-04-09T05:41:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KandemS_Vamshi_Kris)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437/1 "2007-04-09T05:41:51Z")

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unsubscribe  
This email is confidential. If you are not the addressee tell the sender  
immediately and destroy this email  
without using, sending or storing it. Emails are not secure and may  
suffer errors, viruses, delay,  
interception and amendment. Standard Chartered PLC and subsidiaries  
(“SCGroup”) do not accept liability for  
damage caused by this email and may monitor email traffic.

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**Author:** ![KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KandemS_Vamshi_Kris)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437/2 "2007-04-09T09:41:11Z")

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Robert K. wrote:

> Actually, it’s not confidential since you sent it to the public. 🙂
> 
> Vamshi, apparently you used the wrong mail address. Note that typically  
> email addresses for list management and list publishing are distinct.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> ```
> robert
> 
> ```

Hello robert, perhaps a small script which is able to detect this kind  
of message could be deleted automatically and tell the user a related  
message to it would be nice, so that we don’t have to delete it  
manually. Please forgive me if Moderator’s busy for this thing.

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**Author:** ![KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KandemS_Vamshi_Kris)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437/3 "2007-04-09T09:31:11Z")

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On 09.04.2007 05:41, Kandem, Vamshi Krishna wrote:

> unsubscribe  
> This email is confidential. If you are not the addressee tell the sender immediately and destroy this email  
> without using, sending or storing it. Emails are not secure and may suffer errors, viruses, delay,  
> interception and amendment. Standard Chartered PLC and subsidiaries (“SCGroup”) do not accept liability for  
> damage caused by this email and may monitor email traffic.

Actually, it’s not confidential since you sent it to the public. 🙂

Vamshi, apparently you used the wrong mail address. Note that typically  
email addresses for list management and list publishing are distinct.

Kind regards

robert

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**Author:** ![KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KandemS_Vamshi_Kris)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437/4 "2007-04-09T09:49:11Z")

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Arie Kusuma A. wrote:

> Hello robert, perhaps a small script which is able to detect this kind  
> of message could be deleted automatically and tell the user a related  
> message to it would be nice, so that we don’t have to delete it  
> manually. Please forgive me if Moderator’s busy for this thing.

Actually, you already got this information in one of the confirmation  
emails for this list.

And even a small script in this area can have a _huge_ impact on the  
mailing list’s performance:  
Every email would have to be scanned, in full (sans headers), for those  
keyword(s). On average this mailing lists generates 100 mails on a  
Saturday, more during the week, less during holidays.

And then there’s the issue of false positives (this email, for example,  
would be a false positive), and maybe false negatives. This problem gets  
even worse if somebody, who subscribes to this list, had an auto-reply  
turned on. That’d probably grind the mailing list’s server to a halt.

In short: use Google, before complaining about your self-inflicted  
ignorance. 😉

–  
Phillip “CynicalRyan” Gawlowski  
[http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/](http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/)

Eek! That was supposed to be My Special Law, _MY_ special law, I tell  
you!

T/

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**Author:** ![KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@KandemS\_Vamshi\_Kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KandemS_Vamshi_Kris)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unsubscribe/91437/5 "2007-04-09T10:51:18Z")

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Hi,

Am Montag, 09. Apr 2007, 16:30:14 +0900 schrieb Robert K.:

> On 09.04.2007 05:41, Kandem, Vamshi Krishna wrote:
> 
> > unsubscribe  
> > Vamshi, apparently you used the wrong mail address. Note that typically  
> > email addresses for list management and list publishing are distinct.

Every time I read a posting like this I get more convinced  
it would be better to _really_ unsubscribe the original  
poster. The subject is definitely unambiguous. POLS! Then,  
the poster still will receive a confirmation request which  
he can ignore.

It’s not easy for an unexperienced user to manage more than  
a hundered mails a day in one box. The main thing for us  
should be not to deter him from eventually re-subscribing  
half a year later.

Bertram
