On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:13:32PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
> Can somebody please explain this recent rash of people posting uns*bscr*be
> messages to the list? What's the matter, don't people pay *any* attention
> to the instructions they get when they s*bscr*be? Oh, I'm being silly.
> In this day and age, who has time to actually read instructions? Far
> better to bug several hundred other people with your unsuccessful attempts
> to uns*bscr*be than to actually have to spend a few seconds thinking.
>
> --
> Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody
> Meeting, n.:
> An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or
> department not represented in the room must solve a problem.
>
The list server can no doubt be set up to divert such traffic.
Unfortunately that increases the workload of the list maintainer.
On the lists I maintain, there are unsubscribe instructions in the footer
of each post. That doesn't entirely eliminate such requests being
sent to the list, but at least it isn't an issue of users locating
email that was (or was not) saved two computers ago.
For example,
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