On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 09:46:50AM -0500, murr rhame wrote:
> I manually un$ubscribe anyone who asks to leave, no matter how poorly
> the attempt is made. Unwanted email is unwanted email. Even the
> clueless have a right not to get unsolicited junk in their mail box.
Do the clueless have a right to mailbomb fellow list members with
misdirected "unsubscribe" requests?
> In my humble opinion, a list admin who doesn't un$ubscribe someone on
> request, is no better than a common spammer.
That's complete, total, utter nonsense.
Users who have *subscribed* to a mailing list have, by definition,
solicited mail from it. That removes the "B" in "UBE" (unsolicited bulk
email, the correct technical term for spam) and means mailing list traffic
sent to them is most assuredly not UBE.
Internet users who cannot handle the procedures for subscribing
and unsubscribing to mailing lists should avoid using them until
such time as they learn. Those procedures are simple, incredibly
well documented, and frequently presented to them in the footers
of *every* *single* *message* sent to a mailing list. If they cannot
cope with that, then they are too stupid to use the Internet and
fully deserve whatever inconvenience trying to do so causes them.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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