<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Members of Kine-Japan,<DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I wasn't following the Cine-Asia thread, thinking it was someone else's problem, and why should I concern myself with events that happen all the way around the world on that <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">other</SPAN> operating system. Then today I got hit, 40 messages, including one person screaming in all caps that they don't read Spanish and REMOVE ME NOW!!! And now I understand that it really is a global problem. </SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If I am repeating information, sorry, but this is the procedure to unsubscribe:</DIV><DIV>1. click the second to the last link at the bottom (the last one is a yahoo groups link)</DIV><UL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Para cancelar tu suscripción a este grupo, enviá un mensaje a:<BR><A href="mailto:CineAsia-unsubscribe@gruposyahoo.com.ar?subject=Unsubscribe"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FE7">CineAsia-unsubscribe@gruposyahoo.com.ar</FONT></A><BR> </LI></UL><DIV>2. type unsubscribe in both the subject and text area.</DIV><DIV>3. you will receive a message back as follows:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">¡Hola!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hemos recibido tu solicitud de cancelar tu suscripción al grupo </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CineAsia. Por favor, confirmá esta solicitud</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">respondiendo este mensaje. Si no querés cancelar tu suscripción a </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CineAsia, no hagas caso de este mensaje.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Atentamente,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">El equipo de Servicio al Cliente de Yahoo! Grupos </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">El uso de Yahoo! Grupos está sujeto a las <A href="http://ar.docs.yahoo.com/info/utos.html">http://ar.docs.yahoo.com/info/utos.html</A> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">4. I asked one of our student assistants from Venezuela to take a look to be sure. According to her, it is in a dialect that she can't place, rather informal. What the message says is "please confirm that you want to cancel by responding to this message". If you reply again "unsubscribe" you will get a message informing you that your cancellation is complete.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">¡Hola!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Este mensaje es para informarte que tu solicitud de cancelar tu</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">suscripción a CineAsia ha sido completada.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><DIV>Whether I just initiated the countdown sequence on a virus, we'll see. Please be aware that some advise never to click on unsolicited mail under any circumstances, but I did get an immediate reply confirming cancellation. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It seems clear this is operating on the KineJapan list, but because we were not signed up in one shot, this seems to have characteristics of an automated program grinding away on our mailing patterns rather than an isolated "accident" or leak of the mailing list. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would guess Cine-Asia either doesn't know what's happening, or used a tool that got out of hand. I know enough Spanish to see that there is a lot of enthusiastic and informed discussion of Asian film, events, festivals, etc. We have a lot of students here from Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, etc., and there is a thriving J-film and anime scene in the cities. So I second Emilio Orby's concern that we not dump on what may be a valuable companion site because of this breach of etiquette, or worse because they aren't writing in the universal language. If we ever clear this up, we might even consider a link to their site under "Spanish-language Resources." </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Apologies if I'm repeating something already posted.</DIV><DIV>yours,</DIV><DIV>Joe Murphy</DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>