[email protected] wrote: > I would like to comment on this listserv, although I have not been > subscribed for very long.
Strictly speaking, this is a mailing-list not a listserv. Reason LISTSERV is a registered trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, PRV. As such, using the word "listserv" to describe a different product or as a generic term for any email-based mailing list of that kind is a trademark misuse. The standard generic terms are electronic mailing list, elist, or email list for the list itself, and email list manager or email list software for the software product that manages the list > 1. I have read many messages that were not > about verifying one's subscription, although that was the subject line. People just don't know what they're supposed to be doing :-) We have many elderly people on this list, and often, this is their first, tentative foray into the world of electronic communication. I still believe (like others) that computers should not be sold to the elderly without a Health Warning and a mandatory exhortation to try and learn about how things work on the Internet before they take the training wheels off. Failure to do so can cause ire on the part of the younger and more knowledgeable members of this group and the Internet in general. > 2. I have read many messages that appear to be totally personal and not > directed to my attention, with misleading subject lines. Tough! That's the nature of a mailing-list. You receive everything that gets sent to the list - whether you want it or not and regardless of whether you're interested in it or not. > 3. My inbox was already filling up way too fast for me with all kinds > of spam; now it's twice as full with individual messages from this user > group. Learn to manage your Inbox. Filters are very useful despite the slightly un-intuitive way that they have been implemented by bothe Yahoo! and Google, Alternatively, find an ISP that will stop 98% of the spam from ever reaching your Inbox. Mine does. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
