RE: Unsus....

Sorry that I've gotten this wrong - if you're saying "since 2016" you're following this list clearly longer than I do, may be the reason I didn't notice it.
Sadly I can't do anything about these repetitious mails but I'm sure a mod will be glad you mentioned this and give the occasion a second thought.

Flo

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cindy Sue Causey <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2021 9:20 AM
>To: Debian Testing <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Unsus....
>
>On 8/30/21, Heiss Florian <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>On 8/29/21, Cindy Sue Causey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>On 8/29/21, Aleksey Dmitriev <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Unsubs......**
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi! My apologies for changing all that while trying to stay somewhere
>>>in  line with the thread.
>>>
>>>This is a game that's played right about now EVERY TIME there's a new
>>>release. The misspelling is possibly in some part about trying to
>>>avoid  filters starting with Debian's listserv then trickling down to
>>>all of us Users.
>>>
>>>The quantity of it occurring could be about making it seem like a
>>>bunch of Users are suddenly bailing on Debian. I forgot that it
>>>appears to be about Debian's release cycle until you corrected their
>>>spelling. It has been  going on a LONG time. :)
>>>
>>>Cindy :)
>
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sorry for jumpin' in with this question but I'm not sure what you
>mean/want?
>> If everybody spelled their topic right it wouldn't come to anyones
>> attention that they're gone. Or do you mean someone should count and
>> estimate how many leave from release to release?
>
>
>No, this was not a "request" for action of any kind. This was a notice
>generated by a Debian User who has witnessed the "unsus*****" behavior
>occur repeatedly over the last few years.
>
>The pattern is pretty much just exactly the above. The subject line is
>misspelled in the same manner as this newest thread. The behavior seems to
>be repetitious over a short period of time. I just took a quick peek at my 55%
>full Gmail account. The oldest one not yet deleted in there was dated
>October, 2016. That appears to have been a "point release" time period, not a
>full upgrade.
>
>At some point in the past, a list moderator went the extra mile and compared
>all the complaining/requesting email addresses to standing records. Not one
>single "unsuscr***" requesting email address was actually subscribed to the
>list they were.. "addressing". No, I can't remember which list that was, just
>that it occurred sometime in the last ten or twelve years... or at least since
>2016, grin.
>
>Again, my intervention was not a request for anyone to take any actions. My
>correspondence is for informational purposes alerting that this is a pattern of
>behavior that ebbs and flows as a repetitious, unified activity on occasion.
>
>Cindy :)
>--
>Cindy-Sue Causey
>Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
>* runs with birdseed *