Pete's Log: the end of an era
Entry #934, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Today I unsubscribed from BUGTRAQ. Kinda sad, really... I think I'd been subscribed to BUGTRAQ since my sophomore year... I think Marty Rose told me about it in a logic design lab... but although BUGTRAQ posts are frequently fun to read, I've found myself with a distaste for email of late, so I'm trying to minimize the amount I get. So now I've unsubscribed from plex86, pgp-keyserver-folk, and BUGTRAQ. I think those should account for a combined total of at least 40 messages/day. The BUGTRAQ unsubscribe request took almost a day to go through. Must be a busy mail server if it handles 30,000 subscribers or so. But when I confirmed my unsubscribe request, there was the normal confirmation, plus an automated message signed by Elias Levy (a.k.a. Aleph1) asking me to please email him if there was any particular reason I unsubscribed that he could work to improve on. You gotta admire the guy... I can't imagine the volume of mail he must deal with...
Other things I should probably unsubscribe from are the LAM mailing list (I've not actually written an MPI program in a year or more) and I should probably next try to minimize the amount of email that computers send me...