Mike Scott wrote: On 04/05/2011 21:41, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > Hi, > > can someone please explain to me, what is so difficult with reading the 3 > bottom lines of each email and doing exactly what is mentioned there? > [snip]
Sometimes I wonder about simple trolling just wasting everyone's time. The first in this particular thread says "PLEASE unsubscribe me....I cannot tell you which email address you are sending it to" So how on earth he (she?) expects anyone to help I cannot image - but worse, the sender [address] isn't even subscribed. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sometimes it's just stupidity or laziness, but sometimes it can be difficult to actually get free of a list. I think part of the problem is the many ways and devices that might be involved. For example, most of us are reading this list on laptop or desktop computers. If we aren't using Outlook, we can probably see the full message headers fairly easily. But if it is Outlook, that's a barrier. Most users don't even know there's any more than the abbreviated info that Outlook presents. Then, there's the phone. I don't use my phone for anything but talking, but I imagine that the average user of e-mail-by-phone couldn't even see headers if they wanted to. Now, if they acquired OOo (or LibreOffice) via some third-party opt-in website, they might have used a throw-away e-mail account, and had it forward any responses to their regular/main e-mail account. That all might have been weeks or months ago. Here, I'll trot out my own overused story: I've been a list member on many technical lists, for many years. A few years ago, my employer implemented a change in the e-mail system, from initial-plus-family-name to first-name-dot-last-name as the first part of our e-mail addresses. There was an overlap of a year, during which mail to the old address was accepted, but all outgoing mail switched over to showing the new version address as sender. Now, try to answer a confirmation message when the list server doesn't recognize your current address as the one that signed up. I'm sure there are other complications that I haven't thought of. I, too, used to think that people harranging the list to be released were just maliciously stupid (trolls), but then I had my little difficulty and was persuaded to be more forgiving... at least as a first response. - kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
