I belong to an egroup, in which I am NOT an active participant. For the past month I kept on finding messages like this one:

“I requested to remove my name from your mailing list. Plese (sic) do it. Krishnan”

I saw even funnier messages, like:

“I am receiving un solicited mails from this address . It is offence to send un solicited mails . please take all action to stop this menace . If I receive one more mail I will be forced to take legal action . Please take this as a final notice “

(This is a music-club related egroup, for goodness’ sake!)

So, purely in an altruistic spirit, I wrote an email to the egroup, suggesting the following…

“Anyone who wishes to have their email removed from the egroup just has to send an email to

nameofegroup-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

and it will automatically get done, There is no need to keep requesting other people to do it.

DM.”

Of course, I promptly got this message (addressed, of course, to the entire egroup!)

“Ms.DM,

Please remove my email from the group. Thanks.

Regards, Shankarans”

What on earth….??? And I thought I was totally internet un-savvy!

The internet has many sources of entertainment…