[OT] Do be careful with your commands...

["Nicholas Bodley" <user=1375@nabble.blu.org>]

Definitely OT, I'd say, but I thought it might amuse some BLU subscribers.   
(Please do let me know if this is an inappropriate message; I did consider   
whether or not to send it!) 

Spam is not yet like this, thanks be. It's more like inverse spamming of   
oneself. 

Trying to be brief; excerpting two paragraphs from a list owner's apology. 

<quote> 

To clear a minor but annoying issue with the e-mail subscriptions of about   
half a dozen defunct subscribers, I changed an option for the whole list   
[...] 
Unfortunately, I forgot to use the QUIET keyword that would have stopped   
notices of the change being sent out to everyone. 

[...] 

Please ignore the message. And - please - do not e-mail me about it. 

In a fine example of an instruction returning to bite the issuer, I have 
now been sent 29,000+ individual messages confirming that each of you had 
been told of the change. You may feel this was a good example of getting 
one's just desserts. 

-- 
Michael Quinion 
Editor, World Wide Words 
</quote> 

One might guess that he's not a programmer nor a script file writer. 

Happy New Year to all! 

-- 
Nicholas Bodley 
Waltham, Mass. 

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