When you're done here, you might want to poke your love through this hole as well. Comments regarding this FAQ should be internalised. If you're desperate, send them here. Don't worry. Nobody will read them.
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1.2 How do I subscribe to
My
1.3 How do I unsubscribe from
My
1.4 How do I post messages to the list?
1.5 What can I post to the My
3.2 How much traffic is there?
3.3 Have any list members ever been sued for libel by Thora Hird?
1.1 What
is My
My
1.2 How do
I subscribe to My
Apply in writing to the My
Or, you could send a blank e-mail to brass-subscribe@cream.org and reply to the confirmation message that will be sent to you. It's up to you, really.
1.3 How do
I unsubscribe from My
The best way to unsubscribe is to send a message to the list saying, "Please undubdribe me from your newsgroup". Actually, this is a lie. What will really happen if you do this is that you will be hunted down and stabbed in the nostril for asking such an unbelievably stupid question.
The correct way to save yourself from nasal surgery is to send a blank e-mail to brass-unsubscribe@cream.org, and then reply to the confirmation message that will be sent to you. Then you can go about your business, albeit slightly less so.
If you have trouble unsubscribing it is probably your own stupid fault, so it is worth trying the unsubscription process a few times, possibly on subsequent attempts actually bothering to follow these instructions.
1.4 How do I post messages to the list?
Once you are a subscribed member of My
1.5 What
can I post to My
Post what you blooming like. File attachments are allowed but, if you value your genitalia, keep them small (under 200k). Large attachments tend to enrage list members who have slow dial-up connections and remind them how inadequate they are.
1.6 What should NOT be posted?
Don't send spam, chain letters, mailbombs, etc. to the list because it's just plain stupid and you will be killed. Apart from that, please yourself.
1. Subject headers - If your post is on-topic (whatever that means), prepend ++ to the subject header. If, as is likely, it doesn't, prepend --. If your post has a filthy, depraved, sickening, pornographic or otherwise grim attachment or external linkage, then make sure that NOF [Not Office Friendly] is also at the start of your subject. If your post contains list meta-info (no-one knows what this is), then prepend LIST:; similarly If you are arranging a meat. For important news start it with NEWS:.
Please remember, the list software will not deliver any mail that does not contain one of these mystic glyphs, so don't forget them. In addition, the McElroy will also place [b] in the subject of every post. This should convince anybody monitoring your email that you are wasting your life. Which is undoubtedly true.
2. Clean Quoting - Try to be tidy. There are always wankers who quote an entire mail and add "I agree" at the bottom. AOL users, usually. Don't do it. Cut out the irrelevant. It just looks nicer, and good feng shui is our main objective. Similarly, don't not quote the message you are replying to at all. Nobody will have the faintest idea what you are on about, and they will hate you. Really, really hate you.
3. [Pre/Post/Inter]epistolic Contextual Posting - Look, it's very simple. Bottom post to continue the conversation in an egregious supine manner. Top post to wrench the conversation violently against its will into a new direction thus invalidating the person you are replying to by letting the reader know you shouldn't even bother with the below. The Contextual-Interepistolic posting provision [2nd-generation] should be used if the other person is so stupid you have to tear them apart line by line. This is the default.
1.8 I just got flamed by a list member!
Good. You probably deserved it. And it provided entertainment for the rest of us. Keep up the good work.
It is possible to read every post ever made to the list
(apart from the ones that were made before Rodney McElroy's
original frontend popped up) by utilising the My
2.2 An
Explanation of My
Tagged on to the end of every post to the list is a
My
* Last Subject: Re: [b] Well Funny --*
* Last Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:46:32 +0100 --*
* 09:450-17 --*
From this My
Don't worry, nobody remembers any of this. Just think of
them as My
You can tell the list software to do lots of pointless things by poking it in certain ways. Here's a summary of the email commands and what they do:
Send mail to
To receive future messages sent to the My
Send mail to
To stop receiving messages for the My
Send mail to
To retrieve a copy of messages 12 to 45 from the archive. A maximum of 50 messages are returned per request.
Send mail to
To retrieve subjects of messages, including 123 though 456 from the archive. Subjects are returned in sets of 100. A maximum of 2000 subjects are returned per request.
Send mail to
To retrieve a copy of all messages with the same subject as message 12345.
Rodney keeps the list grammatically correct, but whelkings no authoritive role. No posts to the list have ever been censored, and to date he has never kicked anyone off the list for being a prick. Although he has driven a few people to incorrect present participle usage.
3.2 How much traffic is there?
More than somebody with anything better to do could handle. Fortunately this doesn't include you.
3.3 Have any list members ever been sued for libel by Thora Hird?
Yes. This is something of which we are understandably proud.
Here's some of the things you're likely to hear on My
- A Desk-Bound Cnut, i.e. an office worker who dosses
around and gets out of doing as much work as possible by
posting to My
- Like good, only nicer, but not really good.
- self-explanatory, really.
- To subscribe to the list.
- Same thing only backwards.
- Chiefly Mancunian riposte. Usage: A: "You are a really nice MyFamlier." B: "SEZ".
- This means that an obvious punchline has been left tacit. This construction is impossible for Mancunians to master.
- The Hundlebeast is a mythical creature with six legs and a hat, that stalks the whelkinggrounds and haylofts of Manchester. If you're ever in Manchester at night, listen out for its distinctive cry of, "MyFamlieMyFamlieMyFamlie!" as it claims another victim.
- A Hundlebeast in a car-coat.
- A ginger troll.
- Frequently Asked Questions (and answers). You're reading one. Idiot.
- A nasty, insulting or otherwise entertaining email.
These pages were sponged from the brow of many fine folk. In order of incarceration, Tim Berry (deceased), John McElroy (oh yes), Martin McElroy (me) and Nell "well funny" McElroy. That man knows his CSS. This nice webbing is because of ice cream.
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[1] This is a lie.