Re: [Patents] Washington Times: Internet Patents Divide Industry

[Andrew Rendle <andrew@andrewr.co.uk>]

(I'm sending this to everyone, since it might give some sort of 
explanation...)

Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM ALL YOUR MAILINGS.  I DON'T KNOW HOW I EVEN GOT ON
> > THIS LIST
>
>
> Do you really believe hundreds of readers can and will solve your peronal
> problems just because you are shouting?
>
> You deserve to stay locked in as a read-only recipient on whatever list
> you subscribed to.
>
> In general, cross-posting is not a good idea.  I usually remove all lists
> (except patents at aful org) from these headers, but this time I am not
> doing this, because I don't know where these unsubscribe trolls are coming
> from.  Usually once you have one or two, you get a whole avalanche of
> people who suddenly feel entitled not to use their brain.
After my email in this discussion (on 31th July), I had quite a lot of 
bounces from people on fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org, which I sent to 
the list maintainer, who sent me this explanation:

> Greeting-
>      Our mail server had a hard disk crash yesterday.  I am still working 
> on it.  There may be some problems for the next day or 2 as I get things 
> back in order.
>      Thanks!
>
> -Brett

So, it might be related to that, rather than people being stupid.

Andrew