At 10:24 AM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm sorry, but I really don't understand why this is such a big issue.
>Fine, someone accidentally sent 200 messages, but it happens. It's hard to
>understand why hitting delete is such a difficult task. It's nice Michael
>that you host all of these CF lists and I really do appreciate it, but I
>just don't understand why you seem SO angry.
Well, think about this then-- his server has to send those 200 messages to
every subscriber on the list. There are a lot of people subscribed to this
list and that means a lot of server resources being wasted. That slows down
his server, makes our other mail late, and gets him complaints about how
slow the mail is coming in. He's the host and the closest thing to a
moderator. He's supposed to get upset about things like this.
I'm subscribed to other lists that take more extreme action for this kind
of behavior, whether officially or unofficially. So you get unsubscribed
and banned for as long as you'd be wasting his server resources, plus a
week. You can subscribe under a different email address. You can subscribe
the original address a week after you get back. It's a nuisance to the
banned person rather than an extreme punishment. It's an irritant. It's
easy to get around. Be thankful you don't get banned permanently like some
other lists I'm on. Be thankful people don't take auto-response as an
excuse to try to hack your servers. This is not a big punishment.
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