On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:40:38 -0400 Came this utterance fomulated by James Knott to my mailbox:
> M Henri Day wrote: > > 2008/10/5 James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >> Barbara Duprey wrote: > >> > >>> Understood, and it would be annoying, but not really harmful. > >>> > >> What would you do, if someone decided they didn't want you on the > >list> and as soon as you post, fires off another unsubscribe? Would > >that not> be harmful? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> > >> > > > > > > The point that Barbara makes and of which James here reminds us is > > vital - unfortunately, as we have seen recently, from time to time > > acrimony arises even within our little (by the way, does anyone have > > any idea on how many persons are subscribed to/participate regularly > > on this listserve ?) community, and it's not difficult to conceive > > of «offended» persons retaliating by removing «offenders» not merely > > from their own inboxes, but also from the listserve. That would be > > harmful, indeed !... > > > > Henri > > > Also, in this day & age, such a thing is trivial. For example I use > Seamonkey. In Seamonkey, you can set up filters based on things such > as the sender's email address. One of the actions possible, is to > send a message (not necessarily a reply) in response. With such a > filter, as soon as a message from a certain person hits my in box, a > message can be sent, that tells the list to unsubscribe that person. > It certainly would be possible to do this in a relay fashion, via > another account, so that the unsubscribe message does not appear to > come from a list member. > What is not trivial is downloading (exactly) 750 emails from one person on dial-up. POP3 is slow and has high data rate overheads without this. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
