# Please remove me from the mailing list

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/please-remove-me-from-the-mailing-list/48358>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [15 August 2008 04:57 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/please-remove-me-from-the-mailing-list/48358 "2008-08-15T04:57:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ashutosh\_Agarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ashutosh\_Agarwal](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ashutosh_Agarwal)\
**Post date:** [15 August 2008 04:57 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/please-remove-me-from-the-mailing-list/48358/1 "2008-08-15T04:57:03Z")

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Hello,

I do not want to receive any further emails from the ruby-talk group. Can  
you please remove me from the mailing list.

Regards,

Ashutosh Agarwal.

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**Author:** ![Anthony\_Gardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Anthony\_Gardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Anthony_Gardner)\
**Post date:** [15 August 2008 14:08 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/please-remove-me-from-the-mailing-list/48358/2 "2008-08-15T14:08:05Z")

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To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com)

Disclaimer: Technically speaking, I am always wrong!

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> --- On Fri, 15/8/08, Ashutosh Agarwal \<[ashutosh.alchemiste@gmail.com](mailto:ashutosh.alchemiste@gmail.com)\> wrote:  
> From: Ashutosh Agarwal \<[ashutosh.alchemiste@gmail.com](mailto:ashutosh.alchemiste@gmail.com)\>  
> Subject: Please remove me from the mailing list.  
> To: "ruby-talk ML" \<[ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org](mailto:ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org)\>  
> Date: Friday, 15 August, 2008, 5:57 AM
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I do not want to receive any further emails from the ruby-talk group. Can  
> you please remove me from the mailing list.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ashutosh Agarwal.
> 
> Send instant messages to your online friends [http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com](http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com)

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**Author:** ![David\_Masover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@David\_Masover](https://rubytalk.org/u/David_Masover)\
**Post date:** [15 August 2008 15:48 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/please-remove-me-from-the-mailing-list/48358/3 "2008-08-15T15:48:37Z")

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Well, actually, this is the Ruby-Talk list, so you would want to send some  
email to:

ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org

Now, while I have your attention: If anyone else is thinking about sending a  
message like this, please don't. I personally send them straight to spam,  
because that's what it is. You're asking the entire list -- quite possibly  
hundreds of people (I have no idea) -- to unsubscribe you.

And no one is going to reply, at least, not to the list. Or, I hope not --  
because that way leads to madness. We get a huge thread of people begging  
everyone to stop discussing the thread, while it acquires CCs as people keep  
hitting reply-to-all, so that even if the original person manages to get  
unsubscribed from the list, they'll keep getting mail about  
their "unsubscribe" message for a long time afterwards.

There's a much simpler solution: When you signed up -- which you did do, the  
list makes it reasonably difficult for someone else to sign you up -- PAY  
ATTENTION to what it tells you about how to control your subscription. There  
are instructions there on how to unsubscribe.

Asking not only the list admins, but the ENTIRE LIST is pretty rude -- it's  
assuming that the time it would take you to figure this out is worth more  
than the time you're wasting for the entire list.

It's a bit like walking into a crowded bar, realizing you didn't want to be  
there, and screaming loudly, demanding that a bouncer throw you out.

One more thing: I see the original poster comes from someone at Gmail. It's  
trivially easy to set up filters on Gmail -- to make all ruby-talk mail be  
filed under a ruby-talk label, and stop hitting your inbox.

I don't imagine me sending this will change anything, but I had to rant. Seems  
like several times a week, there's someone who's managed to figure out how to  
subscribe, but not how to unsubscribe. And don't get me started on the  
vacation messages...

> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com

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> On Friday 15 August 2008 09:08:05 Anthony Gardner wrote:
> 
> > Disclaimer: Technically speaking, I am always wrong!
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 15/8/08, Ashutosh Agarwal \<ashutosh.alchemiste@gmail.com\> wrote:  
> > From: Ashutosh Agarwal \<ashutosh.alchemiste@gmail.com\>  
> > Subject: Please remove me from the mailing list.  
> > To: "ruby-talk ML" \<ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org\>  
> > Date: Friday, 15 August, 2008, 5:57 AM
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I do not want to receive any further emails from the ruby-talk group. Can  
> > you please remove me from the mailing list.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ashutosh Agarwal.
> > 
> > Send instant messages to your online friends [http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com](http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com)