As webmaster for my church I get some interesting emails sent to the church at times. This has been one of those times. Some nut sent a rambling email message to the church about some ministry in Iceland. He must have sent it to a bunch of people, because I’ve been seeing the result of his or her actions. Someone replied back to the original message saying “TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAIL LIST NOW. I’m reporting you to the FCC.” So that message got sent to everyone on the nut’s list. So now there’s a whole barrage of people replying to these email messages saying “BOTH OF YOU TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAIL LIST NOW…I WILL BE REPORTING YOU THE FCC.” Stuff like that. People are generally ignorant of how email is delivered to them. One person has replied back to the same list 3 times already. I’ve thought about calling this person and trying to explain to them what exactly is happening. But I don’t know if it will do any good.
Here are some of funniest replies from it:
“REMOVE THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR LIST. I HAVE RECEIVED 20 IN THE LAST 48 HOURS.”
L.D. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:45:26
Remove my address from your mailing list. I do not want to receive any more mail from you. This is out of control and outright ridiculous and abusive.
B.R. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:57:14
“all of you who are replying to the lunatic from Iceland, must know that everyone on his list is getting your request to be deleted from the list. I hope by sending this out that none of us will reply to the nut and fill up our email boxes with requests to be deleted”
R.B. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:25:15
“this is not coming from ME (I am xxxxx@xxxx.com)..it is coming from xxxxx@xxxx.com but when everyone “replies to all”, it keeps going I want OFF also !”
UMC – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:25:50 -0500
YOU ARE NOT ON MY LIST!!!!!! I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS IDIOTIC MESSAGE!!!!! I CANNOT HELP YOU!
K.W. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:26:52 -0500
“YOU’RE LUCKY – I’VE RECEIVED OVER 40 AND NOW I’M GETTING NASTY E-MAILS ASKING ME TO REMOVE FOLKS FORM MY MAILING LIST WELL . . .YOU ARE NOT ON MY LIST!!!!!! I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS IDIOTIC MESSAGE!!!!! I CANNOT HELP YOU!”
K.W. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:27:56 -0500
“You keep sending this to me. I didn’t send the email, It appears to be a virus from xxxxx@xxxxxx It also seems to be going only to UMC’s, which we are, so you need not shout.”
W.H. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:56:40
“I am not certain how I ended up getting emails from “REMINDER FROM ICELAND” but I am also getting replies from everyone on his address list. Some how they are all being routed to my address even though they were sent to his. I am trying to find out how I ended up getting messages from this personand what they mean. I am a United Methodist Minister and I have no idea where this came from. If you find out anythin please let me know.”
R.C. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:20:43
“REMOVEMEAS WELL”
G.B. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:54:00 EST
“Your “remove” emails and protests are being sent to the guy�s entire list. Don’t bother replying to his bogus email address, as you are only compounding the problem. I’ve received more emails from his victims today than I did from him.”
B.B. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:57:00 -0500
“Whoever you are, you are making me crazy! Please stop this nonsence!”
M.L. – Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:54:14
“Messages to Iceland will just bounce back to everyone. This must be a bad joke. I have installed McAfee.com and instructed it to Kill any thing from iceland.”
L.T. – Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:28:19
I’m watching that movie Rudy. It’s a good movie of telling no matter how difficult life can get, you can always succeed. Then again, it might just be a propaganda film for Notre Dame football. Notre Dame isn’t all that good. It’s got a winning tradition and the Touchdown Jesus on its side. But I’ve never been all that impressed.
So it took Rudy 3 or 4 times to get into Notre Dame. Is Notre Dame that difficult to get into? Could I get in? Do you have to be Catholic to go there?
I like the movie, I just wish it wasn’t about Notre Dame, a school I’ve never been impressed by.
Rudy grew up to be a motivational speaker. I found his website.