I second this. I don't mind having to post or refresh my subscription every once in a while. It would however be important for me to receive a notification to refresh my subscription instead of just silently removing my subscription.
HTH, Mike >Hi, > >I think many of the 1217 active subscribers are people like me who tune in to > >the list but only contribute once in a blue moon. > >I do not have any objection to a "send email to keep your subscription active" > >idea, but I have never seen that used in the other mailing lists that I >subscribe to. > >Regards, >Eugene Wee > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> dilettantes remain rude.Where we can almost borrow money from our >>> earring.Hugo, the friend of Hugo and earns frequent flier miles >>> with power drill near. >> >> In order to be able to send messages to this mailing list, >> the spammer above had to subscribe. To subscribe means that >> he had to respond to an email that was sent to the subscription >> address. Since his email address does not exist, I'm wondering >> how he managed to pull this off. Any ideas? >> >> I have unsubscribed every account from "paypal.com" and "ebay.com". >> All such accounts were of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", etc. There were 7 such accounts. >> >> After purging the accounts above, we are still left with 1217 >> active subscribers. This seems like a lot to me. I'm wondering >> if some fraction of these might be inactive accounts, or accounts >> belonging to people who have spam filters turned on to delete >> incoming email from sqlite.org. Does anybody have any ideas on >> how we might remove people from the mailing list that do not >> actually read messages from the mailing list? When email bounces, >> the user is removed automatically. But email addresses that silently >> absorb messages and never deliver them to a real human can linger >> on the mailing list indefinitely. >> >> I wonder if I need to implement some kind of mechanism that requires >> you to either send a message to the mailing list or else renew your >> subscription every 3 months. Does anybody have any experience with >> other mailing lists that require such measures? >> >> -- >> D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >
