Celebrity listserv follies

MIT's Society of Women Engineers listserv seems to have reached consciousness and gotten out of control, signing up half the world. This protest reached my email box (and I imagine the rest of the list's) this morning:

From: Tim Berners-Lee
To: mitswe-owner@mit.edu
Cc: lmit@mit.edu
Subject: What is going on?
Date: Oct 5, 2005 11:15 AM
- Why am I getting mail to lmit@mit.edu?
- What is this subscription and unsubscription all about?

Tim Berners-Lee

timbl@w3.org
timbl@mit.edu

Posted by dbrown at October 05, 2005 11:47 AM