Re: FW: GET ME OFF THIS DAMN LIST

[Vern Hart]

On 24 Mar 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
> Noooooo!!!!!!!  People who are ignorant enough to send mail to the
> whole list are usually too ignorant to actually *read* the messages to 
> find out how to get off the list.  It's just a waste of bandwidth and
> screen space.

This is true.  I have a list of idiot^Wnon-technical people and adding a
two line footer with unscribe instructions had little effect.

My way around it was to implement a minimum message size (dir/msgsize)
and moderate any posts that ezmlm-reject rejects.  (This required
rewinding stdin but wasn't too difficult.)

The -only- messages I've seen that have had a body less than one line
are unsubscription requests.

Cheers,
Vern
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