[Ducati] If I wanted off...(was Re: Please take me off mailing list)

[Ronald Betts]

Genuis Rob....I give it a 9.5 outta 10. Good stuff and I too have the same 
problem with those M&Ms.



Peace...Ron"Desmohead"Betts 95 900 SP
I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it!





>From: "Rob Allen" <ducati.rob at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
>To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
>Subject: [Ducati] If I wanted off...(was Re: Please take me off mailing 
>list)
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:08:14 -0700
>
>Okay, this is just a hypothetical "cancel me" message, but I want to see 
>how
>the judges think I'd rate.
>
>From: Rob Allen <ducati.rob at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: *Ducati Owners Group ducati at ducati.net*
>To: *ducati at ducati.net*
>**Date: *Jul 6, 2006 7:52 PM*
>Subject: *STOP THE LIST, I WANT TO GET OFF!!!*
>
>Criminy, you people really blow me away.  How can so many people write so
>many damned e-mails in so short a time?  I got up from my desk to get a bag
>of peanut M&M's from the vending machine, which are outrageously priced and
>are never properly stocked and half the time the bag ends up stuck on the
>little curly-cue wire thingy and you end up having to buy TWO bags.  I was
>gone for *maybe* six minutes and I come back to find 377 e-mails in my
>inbox.
>
>Somewhere buried in that astounding array of salient topics such as which
>motor oil to use, what tires to use at Buttpopper Park in East Gumbush
>Montana, and whether Pierre Terblanche should be nailed to a cross at the
>next WDW, was an urgent e-mail from my boss telling me to pick up a client
>at the airport at 12:15.  It's now almost 5:00 Pacific Time and the
>unemployment office about to close, but I still felt compelled to write 
>this
>e-mail.
>
>In 2003, President Bush signed the CAN-SPAM act (
>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031216-4.html) to curtail
>the spread of unsolicited e-mails.  In spite of repeated attempts to cancel
>my own membership using the "unsubscribe" web form, I continue to receive
>huge volumes of e-mail from the list.  Clearly the web form is a practical
>joke, but as they say, "fool me once, shame on you -- fool me twice, shame
>on me."  I'm sad to say I tried some dozen or so times and even now I'm
>tempted to try just one more time, sort of the same hopeful mentality that
>goes into buying lotto tickets every week, I'd imagine.
>
>But now, enough is enough.  You've had your fun.  Unsubscribe me (or
>"unsubscibe" me, if you prefer) or you'll hear from my lawyer.
>
>--
>-- Rob Allen
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>1997 748/853 "Regina Gialla" (Gia) (aka Bombo)
>2001 BMW K1200LTC "BatGirl"
>2004 Suzuki DRZ125L
>2005 Suzuki DRZ200 Dual Sport
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