Barbara Duprey wrote:
....
<quote>
Please urgently stop all e-mails to my computer . I have send a lot of
mails asking to stop this immediately.
</quote>
... and forcing subscription would certainly generate more of these.
There are a lot of legitimate causes (not just laziness or stupidity!)
for people to have difficulty with unsubscribing; for anybody who is
interested, I can send you the material I've put together on this. And
there does seem to be a hole that allows people to be subscribed without
the kind of confirmation that is normally required; I've been asking
them off-list for explanations of how they got there, without any luck yet.
IIRC there was some suspicion (on 'users') that the less scrupulous
'vendors' of OOo were subscribing their customers as a means of
providing their so-called support. The mechanics were never clear
though, as the user would still have had to respond to the confirmation
email. But maybe people do this without understanding the ramifications,
or maybe just forget they ever did it.
But as I've suggested previously, if a regular 'do you still want to be
subscribed' message were sent out (default on no reply - removed from
list) then this would remove unwitting newbies fairly quickly. Maybe
there could be the initial confirmation, then a handful of monthly
requests, then perhaps even stop on the assumption the subscriber now
knows what they're doing. Just an idea to toss into the mix.
--
Mike Scott
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