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"This low-tech emailing list is maintained for the benefit of coaches, referees, and parents involved in youth soccer in Northern California. Emailings occur at a frequency of about one per month. Okay, maybe two per month during the playing season. You’ll keep receiving these emailings until you ask us to stop. List maintenance is almost totally automatic. If you are no longer in Northern California or wish to be removed from this list for any reason, simply send a reply to info@sayso.org with "Delete", "Remove", "Exclude", "Unsubscribe", "Stop!", “No More!”, "Cease and Desist!", or something similar in the subject line. Regional dialects, colloquialisms, and various misspellings (e.g., “Cut it out!”, “Delist”, “Unlist”, “Disenfranchise”, “Quit me”, “Unsuscribe” [sic], “Unsuscripe” [sic], “Unsusbribe” [sic], “Describe”, and “Unscribe”) are understood. "Drop Dead, Pond Scum" works also, although emails with profanity (e.g, “Go to He!!”) will be filtered out and automatically discarded so that the youth players who volunteer in the SAYSO office won't see them. (And then, you’ll have to send another email later and be nice anyway.) Other requests, particularly those that include the word “me” (e.g., “Take me off”, “Drop me”, “Terminate me”, “Cut me”, or worse, “Cut me off”, “Purge me”, “Reject me”, “Take me down”, “Expunge me”, “Take me out”, and “Kill me”) are causes for concern but are generally implemented figuratively rather than literally. Tense, gender, and grammar (e.g., “Please removed us/we/him/her.) are irrelevant. Some requests (e.g., “Enscribe” and “Obscribe”) confuse us and result in additional contact. Manners (e.g., “Please”, “Sorry”, and “Thank you, anyway.”) are optional. Important: The number of exclamation marks after your requests (e.g., “Remove!” versus “Remove!!!!!!!!”) is irrelevant. Explanations (e.g., “I visited San Francisco once on the way to the Calaveras Frog Jumping Contest and loved looking at the bridge through the fog, but I have never lived in Northern California.”) are always interesting and are appreciated. Sporting metaphors (e.g., “I don’t want to play on your team.”) help soften the blow. Denials (e.g., “There is no one here who plays soccer.” or “We hate that game.”) mean we entered someone’s email address incorrectly. We are used to, but politely disagree with, gender stereotyping (e.g, “Real men play pointy football.” and “Soccer is a man’s game, not a game for skirts.” Questions (e.g., “How did you get my email address?”) generally can’t be answered because list maintenance is automatic, nobody in the SAYSO office knows the answer and, besides, talking about IPs is asking too much of soccer coaches. Your email address and all other alias email addresses that you include in the body of your response will automatically be added to SAYSO's Exclude List. This will permanently stop delivery of all types of future SAYSO announcements, including those for upcoming tryouts, coaching/refereeing courses, refereeing opportunities for league and tournament games, and birthday parties. You can also “quit yourself” at http://www.sayso.org/leavemail.html"