Re: Last Post

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Thomas Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Jonathan White wrote:
> > At 12:17 27/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Do we _have_ to unsubscribe? Is there any problem in just hanging
around
> > >until
> > >the list just goes feet in the air?
> > There's no direct reason to now. Once the list gets put into stasis
you
> > shouldn't see any more messages from it anyway. It's not very neat
to leave
> > a sub to a dead mailing list though, or am I being anal?
> 
> being subbed to a list when it dies is dangerous - you get a peek
through
> into the place where lists go after they die. some people stay on
lists
> until the final moment, but if you look too directly into the Beyond,
you 
> are changed forever. that's what happened to Bester in B5, anyway.
> 

Cool! We can determine if there really is a Big ListServ in the Sky! The
Beyond doesn't scare me much...people do, sometimes, but not the
Universe...

Brian