I and another old mutual friend of Dave's were both on his pre-RSS DaveNet mailing list for a long time past when it stopped being interesting, and we would always joke about how we were both afraid to ask him to remove us from DaveNet, because whenever somebody else would ask to be removed, it would hurt Dave's feelings, and he'd talk smack about them behind their back after begrudgingly removing them, so we suspected we weren't the only ones afraid to unsubscribe. At least RSS made it possible to unsubscribe from his feed without hurting his feelings. (My friend's mom was his high school teacher in New York, and his wife was Dave's first kiss in high school, so they had some hilarious stories!)
