Michelle Dick:
> Feedback is irrelevant to the points I'm discussing.
I think it's helpful in establishing prevailing attitudes.
> Right now it's not a big deal. But if I got 1000 such requests a day
> from sites that were PAML copycats and listed me without my request?
> I dunno, I might feel different.
That's something I fret about, you know. :-/ But are people doing
it for altruistic reasons like me, or are they just trying to improve
the popularity of their sites? Does the intent really even matter?
. As it is most of your lists are
> there by request (yes?) so you have every right to send a verification
> request and it's a great courtesy that you do do it.
Hard to say. If I had to estimate, I'd have to say as much as
one-third of the database is unsolicited. However, I get spontaneous
requests to update from people whose lists fall into the unsolicited
catagory, so people are finding out. Of the unsolicited lists, I
only do that with Majordomo, LISTSERV and ListProc lists, so I
never have to bug the list owner about it later on.
Do lists gleaned from NEW-LIST count as unsolicited?
