Gary, the message in question said you were subscribed, not unsubscribed.
While I agree that folks should have realized no one was targeting them
specifically and that it was a general list problem, your list of logical
realizations did not apply to this situation.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
From: "Gary Templeman"
I just have to say that this whole "unsubscribe" fiasco should be a
learning experience for all. When a computer system develops a problem, it
can easily take 8-16 hours at a MINIMUM for a human to get to the problem
(left work for the day, then in bed), then more time to diagnose and fix
it. Remember this is a worldwide mailing list so the people who can fix
things may not be in your time zone. Cut them some slack.
So what happened in this instance? List members who were so upset about
the large volume of repeat messages doubled the problem by
asking/complaining about it. I counted over 55 totally unnecessary
messages of the " What's going on...I have received 24...I have received
35...type ad infinitum. So instead of the 50 or so unsub messages, we all
had to wade through another 50 or more totally worthless messages.
Anyone using a little logic should have realized a few things.
1. If you really were unsubscribed, sending a message to the list would
not go through anyway.
2. If *you* personally were unsubscribed, you would not have gotten dozens
of those messages, so it should have been obvious there was most likely a
computer error going on and not something you needed to worry about.
3. If *you* actually were unsubscribed in error, other list members have
no ability to solve your problem anyway, so why try to send your query to
the list? Those kinds of things should be handled by contacting support
directly.
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