So, if enough others on the list would favor the addition
of uns*bscr*be instructions to the posts, and if somebody
can contact the list maintainer and pursuade him or her to
add such, we might see a decrease in such nuisance postings.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> Quoting Dan Wilder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > 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
> >
> > The list server can no doubt be set up to divert such traffic.
> > Unfortunately that increases the workload of the list maintainer.
>
> As a list maintainer myself, I'm well aware of that. That's why I
> obfuscated the word "s*bscr*be".
>
> > On the lists I maintain, there are unsubscribe instructions in the footer
> > of each post. That doesn't entirely eliminate such requests being
>
> Yes, I do that as well, ever since I switched to using mailman instead of
> majordomo. It seems to work fairly well, even with such perpetually
> computer-clueless people as pilots.
>
> --
> Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody
> God is real, unless declared as an integer.
>
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