I believe I'd have to come down on Rob's side on this one. When we subscribe
to mail lists as (mostly) intelligent adults, we take on the responsibility of
knowing how to remove ourselves from the same list, along with a few other
simple commands that are available to us by the automated list server.
Beyond that argument, I think those who will readily agree to do everything for
the subscriber manually are likely owners of a fairly small list and can devote
the time to each such request. Try to be that generous when you have 27,000+
readers on the line. I will still unsub manually but only after they show me
they've exerted a fairly reasonable adult effort to do it for themselves.
Dr. Rob Higgins wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, murr rhame wrote:
>
> > punt them immediately. No questions asked. No silly games. In my
> > humble opinion, a list admin who doesn't un$ubscribe someone on
> > request, is no better than a common spammer.
>
> Oh sure! I'm a spammer. Thank you.
> Your philosophy is correct and a bunch of us are
> common spammers. Gee, pretty hard to focus on the real
> spammers if you're going to confuse the issue like that.
>
> Why are mailing lists are automated?
>
> Answer: because otherwise they would absorb too much
> human time and therefore many of them could not
> be offered as a free public service.
>
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