From: jburrell@ephsa.sat.tx.us (Jason Burrell)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 15:36:33 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Mailbombing
Message-ID: <1qNmgc7w165w@ephsa.sat.tx.us>
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CS> 50 messages a day.  I accidentally deleted some of my real mail
CS> going through and deleting all yours.  As I have said many,  many
CS> times, I thought I was subscribing to a periodic newsletter.
CS> There was no warning that I would receive 50 messages a day, and
CS> apparently no mechanism for gettin of the list once I was on.  I
CS> simply made ever more vehement requests to be removed from your
CS> list.  As each one was ignored, I stepped up the volume of my
CS> requests.  After about 10 days of no response (short of some
CS> foul-languaged vicious flames from your readers furious because I
CS> bounced one or two of their letters - but they couldn't
CS> understand why I was  unhappy about receiving 50 unwanted letters
CS> a day).  What you call a 'mailbomb' was the only action out of
CS> everything I tried which actually got some response.  Let's stay
CS> clear on this:  all I ever wanted, and all I want now, is TO BE
CS> REMOVED FROM THIS LIST.  I am still receiving

How did you subscribe in the first place? Cypherpunks-request@toad.com? 
Wouldn't it make sense to mail that to get off? (Not saying that you DID 
use the request address)

I don't blame the cypherpunk 'owner' NOT removing you. You post publicly 
to a list asking to be removed. You're not. So you mailbomb the 
list-owner? The fact that you weren't removed from the list (not going 
through the 'proper' channel) isn't an excuse to mailbomb the list.

Let me get this straight. In all the replies you received to your public 
removal requests, not ONE said where to send the request?