Annals of Cluelessness
Mailing lists can be a good idea, … or not.
My webmail address book just has the Raging RINOs email addresses on it. No others, not even my own. So, I was playing with my CPanel ‘mailing list’ function, and set up a mailing list, rinoxxx@xxxxx.com (that’s not the real list name, so no one get cute), without realizing it and announced it … also without realizing it, because my own email address wasn’t on the list.
I knew I had set up some kind of list, but I couldn’t find a publicly accessible HTML sign up page or anything. Hell … if I couldn’t find it, the last thing on my mind was that someone else could find it. (Not realizing that ‘welcome’ emails had gone out.) A few hours later, I get an email from RINO Jeremy, “Hey, all these one-liner RINO emails are a pain. Can you set up a digest?”
Having no clue what I’ve done, I email him back, “Great idea. If you want to do it, I’ll send you the RINO email addies in CSV format.” I’ll bet he puzzled over that reply for a while. He had no idea who he was dealing with. Almost like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, “You f*cked with the wrong Marine! … I am more clueless than your worst nightmare.”
And it gets worse.
Soon, I received a system-generated email saying “You have to moderate this message to the mailing list.” I found this quite confusing, but, in a moment of realization, realized I had better sign myself up on the list, which I do, and begin to receive an assortment of emails from RINOs … with time on their hands and senses of humor to match. 
Then more emails, saying “Take me off this fricking list.”
So I send out an apology email explaining my cluelessness and promising to tighten things up, whereby some of the chatty emailers reply, “Noooo … we’re having too much fun.”
Eventually I learn what a ‘digest’ is (daily or weekly or monthly summaries) which is all that Jeremy wanted in the first place. It’s a standard feature on these lists. So I email Jeremy back and tell him that he’s on digest, with my apologies.
You know, it’s better not to play with things you don’t understand.
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