The Universe Mocks...

[lagilman]

Okay, this is a commentary from the universe...


After sending an unsubscribe message to an automated list, in addition to confirming my request, the autobot sent back the following message off my sig file:

> Writer. Editor. Tired Person.
Unknown command - "WRITER.". Try HELP.



Sheeesh. Everyone's a wiseass.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

LOL!

I bet if you tried help, it would tell you "HELP NOT AVAILABLE."

[brother-che.livejournal.com]

that's really good. I tried to share it with my mother-in-law who was sitting next to me and she just sort of looked at me with the look that says "my daughter married a congenital idiot..."

Of course, she's not a writer, so she doesn't really understand.

[christymarx.livejournal.com]

I hate it when the universe does that. I mean where does it get off doing that? Just because it's so...y'know...BIG and all.

Hmmm. Which mailing list software does that list use?

[(Anonymous)]

Most lists I'm on don't *care* what's in the body of the message. They only care about the Subject line on an unsubscribe request.
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Dennis

Re: Hmmm. Which mailing list software does that list use?

[lagilman]

I don't know, but I had to put the unsub request into the body, not the subject line. Which surprised me a bit, yeah.


And welcome to LJ, btw! How're you feeling?

Re: Hmmm. Which mailing list software does that list use?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, but I had to put the unsub request into the body, not the subject line. Which surprised me a bit, yeah.

*shrug*

I've dealt with ListServ, GNU Mailman, Ecartis, Communigate, and a couple of others. They all have thier quirks. The one you dealt with seems to have a stupid parser.

And welcome to LJ, btw!

Depending upon how you mean that. I have actually posted here before.

I have not become a LiveJournal member. That may happen, because there is a Live Journal client implemented as an extension for Mozilla based browsers (Netscape 7.X/Mozilla/Firefox) and I've been meaning to test it.

Finding time to post anything worth reading will be another matter...

How're you feeling?

*Yawn*

Uh? Oh! Sorry...

Tired, and not certain why. Back from Albacon, which was a pleasant, extremely low key little con. So low key, in fact, that it almost didn't exist. There's no real reason for being tired. I even got a normal amount of sleep, which shows just how low key it was.

There were surreal moments, however, such as sharing the hotel with an NAACP gathering, three weddings, and various folks associated with the Clint Black, Metallica and Godsmack, and Usher tours, who were playing successive nights at Albany's Pepsi Arena. (One of the Godsmack crew was proclaiming "I'm married, but I fool around!" to a couple of women. I managed to not say "Oh! The poor sheep!" aloud, but it took some doing.)

And sitting in the Rennsalaer station waiting for the train on Sunday, and getting an impromptu Celtic fiddle concert. A quartet of kids with fiddles were being photographed, and played as part of it. They were apparently a brother/sister fiddle duo who had added a couple of members, and were getting a new name and publicity photos prior to upcoming gigs.

They were quite good, and it was a delightful and serendipitous surprise. I took a batch of photos myself, but haven't had a chance to see how they came out just yet.
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Dennis

The Invisible Poster

[lagilman]

Depending upon how you mean that. I have actually posted here before.

Have you? I have short-term mem-- oooo, shinyprettylook!

*ahem* What were we talking about?

*grin*


Must have been a while before, actually, since I had this journal set to only allow registered users after the spamming incident a while back, and only recently took that off (and I still have to find and unscreen any "Annon" posts, which is why yours take a while to show up).

Re: The Invisible Poster

[(Anonymous)]

Depending upon how you mean that. I have actually posted here before.

Have you? I have short-term mem-- oooo, shinyprettylook!

You have short-term mem? Geez. Some folks get all the breaks...

*ahem* What were we talking about?

*grin*

Must have been a while before, actually, since I had this journal set to only allow registered users after the spamming incident a while back, and only recently took that off (and I still have to find and unscreen any "Annon" posts, which is why yours take a while to show up).

The delay in posts appearing publically doesn't perturb me. You see them, and that's all I care about.

But LJ does have an option to display a graphic image of a nonsense phrase that the anonymous poster must type in before submitting a post. If the phrase typed matches that displayed, the post is visible immediately. That neatly foils spambots, and may be a good option for you to use.
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Dennis