Those of you who are currently on, or who have been on, bounce mailing lists such as Yahoo! Groups will be familiar with the person who forgets they’re on a list and how to unsubscribe from it. They then send a one line message to the list saying “unsubscribe”, but instead of being unsubscribed, the entire list gets the one-line post.
I got a “twist” on this situation from one of my lists today:
On Jan 1, 2006, at 4:01 PM, {name deleted to protect the guilty} wrote:
unsubscribe
{to which someone replied:} Sorry. You are subscribed as a “life member” and your request cannot be completed.