On September 20, 2007 11:48:20 pm Larry Gusaas wrote: > On 9/21/07 12:23 AM, Robert Smits wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 September 2007 12:23, Larry Gusaas wrote: > >> I am not complaining about people CCing the original poster. I AM > >> complaining about people being able to post without being subscribed. As > >> I explained elsewhere, I can not filter for unsubscribed posters when I > >> use the Gmane newsgroup to receive messages. > > > > Then, for pity's sake, USE A REAL EMAIL PROGRAM to read the list! > > I use Thunderbird, which seems to be the one recommended by most people > on this list when people as if OOo has an email component to replace > Outlook. Is it not a real email program? Why are you shouting?
At the risk of further extended this horrible thread, it's because you seem to refuse to listen to what many others have been telling you, and this thread has become interminable. This listserve does not require that posters be subscribed. It's a deliberate decision to do so, and to require people to do so simply wouldn't allow as many people (especially clueless newbies) to be helped. > >> There is not this problem on any of the Mozilla newsgroups I follow. To > >> post by email on them, you have to subscribe. They have none of this > >> unsubscribed posters BS. > > So what? This is an email list, not a newsgroup! If you insist, for > > whatever reason, on reading it from a news server, please stop trying to > > prevent the rest of us from helping others that haven't subscribed. > Newsgroups, by definition, don't requre subscriptions. All they require is that you connect, somewhere in the world, to a news server carrying that particular newsgroup. > I use Gmane so I can just download the headers and only download the > body of the messages that I wish to read. It is much more reasonable to > do this on a list that has the volume of postings that this one does. I > have never tried to prevent anyone from helping others, subscribed or > unsubscribed. I am not the only one pointing out the problems caused by > allowing unsubscribed posters. Many who read it through emails agree. It > is nothing to do with using a news server. It seems to have everything to do with your complaints, though, which are all about what happens when you use a newsgroup server to read an email list. -- Bob Smits Ph 250-245-2553 Fax 250-245-5531 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
