Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:21:11AM +0000, REV KEVIN OLSON wrote:
>unsubscribe please

Yeah, that's EXACTLY how it works, except you forgot that, for this to
work, you have to speak into your computer's large microphone.  You
say:

"Computer, unsubscribe me from the cygwin-talk mailing list."

The computer says "Computing..." and then a lot of lights blink and
there is a lot of clattering as the computer relays work on your request
(as you know, a typical computer can do scores of operations per
second).  Eventually a bell will ring and the computer will spit out a
thin stream of paper indicating that it has carried out your commands.

That's the accepted way of unsubscribing from a mailing list.  Your
confusion is understandable since computers are really dumb when you
type things into them.  It's only when you speak into a microphone that
they really "come alive"...

...Of course, they don't really come alive because they are built out
of unfeeling wires, relays, and vacuum tubes.

cgf