From phm@a2e.de  Mon Apr  9 23:13:34 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:13:34 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Unsubscribe:   I have no further interest in reading
 abusive infantile email from 'phm' et al.
In-Reply-To: <a04310107b6f7425c5553@[158.152.78.213]>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104092349030.2189-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

> I have no further interest in reading abusive, infantile email from
> 'phm' et al. Now there's one fewer readers.

It seems one more person didn't get the point.  And if people don't get
the point, we will continue to see avalanches of "unsubscribe" and other
administrative messages here.

Some people just are not willing to think for a few seconds before they
send an unsubscribe request to a mailing list that is read by 100 people.
Or they just don't care whether they might disturb those people. Evidently
the public forum can't be the right place for administrative requests, and
it takes only a few minutes of browsing on http://www.aful.org/ to find
find the right place.  But evidently spending a few minutes of one's own
time is much less acceptable to some people than wasting (in sum) hundreds
of minutes of other people's time.

This problem is particularly frequent on patents@aful.org, and the people
who do that are usually from the patent community, not from the computing
community.  This is not to say that the patent community is ill behaved in
general.  I think it consists of a lot of quite well educated people who
enjoy going to the opera house and the golf course and who know how to
behave in an extremely elegant way in the court-room.  But not in the Net.
And the lack of Netiquette goes hand in hand with a rude attitude toward
the software world and a pretension of being the born leader who is
entitled to redefine the rules of the Net economony by means of some
shoddy reinterpretations of patent law which resulted from an informal
insider group consensus and is stubbornly maintained although it can't
stand up to any test of debate.

> >On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, toulouse wrote:
> >
> >>  Thank you for unsubscribing
> >
> >Do you mean to say that the 100 readers of this mailing list are to be
> >thanked?  What for?  Why should they be interested in whether you are
> >subscribed?
> >
> >Some people believe that they have the right to decide who should own
> >which software ideas.  It is not surprising that often these same people
> >are completely illiterate and unwilling to learn when it comes to using
> >software in the Internet.
> >
> >-phm
> >
>



