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Subject: OT: lists administrivia
Please excuse the administrivia. (I've searched around oasis-open but can't see any manual way of contacting the lists administrator.) Every time I send an email to this list I reap a hundredfold the volume in unsolicited mail from people like Mr Bent Cock & Miss Ophelia Dick. Once I even got an email from the bunny working the controls at Bellsouth[1]. I realize this is a private mailing list but I think it's being mined for email addresses. So I'd like to munge my mail address. Other mailing lists have allowed me to unsubscribe from the list and post using the mail-to-news gate at gmane.org. Is this also possible with oasis lists? [1] I'm of the firm belief that artificial intelligence is an oxymoron . I remember years ago laughing with a friend who had the misfortune to work for a government department. He was composing a report which contained the number "three and one-hag" and MS Word had the effrontery to say he was a sexist. I guess things haven't improved much when a mail bot deep in the bowels of Bellsouth bounces my mail because "it either contained a virus, spam, pornography, or was offensive." Well guess what Mr Automatic Mail Bot: 1) my mails are none of the above; 2) if they were, I still refuse to be censured by a machine; 3) Bent and Ophelia (mentioned above) are much much smarter than you. They use metaphors in their advertising, never mention Viagra, and pad out the email with several paragraphs of random words so they can bypass any baysian filters that you may be using; so it's time you learnt your place in the food chain .
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