At 11:10 PM 1/4/99 +0000, Alan Thew is said to have written:
>On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Tim Bowden wrote:
>
>> murr rhame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I manually un$ubscribe anyone who asks to leave, no matter how poorly
>> > the attempt is made. Unwanted email is unwanted email. Even the
>> > clueless have a right not to get unsolicited junk in their mail box.
The clueless have figured out how to get on to a mailing list that takes a
two step process to get on.
My general finding is that someone will tell me, "I've tried unsubscribing
five times, and it has never worked."
I log all mail to majordomo and all aliases of majordomo. I frequently
look at these logs and find that these folks are liars. The typical person
has tried unsubscribing once, misspelled the word "unsubscribe", and can't
be bothered to work out anything else. I get tired of liars and I get
tired of idiots who abuse the lists I run. One person simply started
forwarding entire digests to the list because, as she put it, in private
e-mail, "posting big stuff always gets me kicked off of lists I'm no longer
interested in - it is easier than figuring out how to unsubscribe."
It is stuff like this that makes running mailing lists for nothing so
rewarding.
I put a click on URL in every header that will format the unsubscribe mail
for them if their mailer supports body=unsubscribe on a mailto URL, and
manual instructions in every footer. If someone can follow the two step
majordomo instructions to subscribe, but can't follow the much simpler
instructions to unsubscribe, I have little sympathy for them. I consider
unsub requests posted to the list rude and abusive, and I filter them and
ignore them. I will answer requests for info or help with changed e-mail
addresses to the -approval aliases, but I consider the comment that "it
might be illegal to forge e-mail from an old address that you are still
getting mail forwarded to you from" to be ludicrous. If the mail is still
being forwarded to them, it is still their e-mail address.
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