The Huntington Theatre Company keeps sending me e-mail to announce that Carrie Fisher is coming to town on Friday.  After six messages on the subject I got annoyed enough to unsubscribe from the Huntington’s mailing list.  (I have nothing against Carrie Fisher, but six announcements about anything is plenty).  This is what I got:

Your request has been processed and the email address has been removed from the list 20081006_CFBeginsFri_nonsubs.

Let’s decode.  I just subscribed from a mailing list titled “2008-10-06 Carrie Fisher Begins Friday, non-subscribers.”

I love a mailing list that’s so specifically titled it’s virtually inconceivable it will ever be used again, whether I’m subscribed or not.  Now let’s see what happens when I unsubscribe from the “2008-10-09 Carrie Fisher Still Begins Friday, non-subscribers” list when it comes out!