On 14 Feb 2000, at 15:16, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> >Shortly after I started sending jokes to her list, I got several tear
> > jerking letters about how "I've been trying to unsubscribe for two
> >years, and I can't do it! PLEASE HELP ME!!!" One person swore they
> >had never subscribed. (Note.... the list server I use only
> >subscribes the senders address. While it doesn't confirm
> >subscriptions {the next version will do that}, you can't subscribe
> >someone else, unless you can forge their address.)
> I hope you aren't assuming that therefore this person is just a stupid
> liar. I have seen cases where domains, particularly schools, create
> accounts, say for a class, and just recycle them from one generation
> of the class to the next. Hence the address stays the same, while the
> current users of it come and go. One user signs up to a list, leaves,
> new user gets assigned existing account, and "Hey, why am I getting
> all this mail? I didn't ask for this."
In each case it was an address selected by the subscriber with a
commercial ISP. As in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". In some cases, I do
believe that the entire family uses an account, and a child will
subscribe to a mailing list, the contents will offend the parents, and
the child denies all knowledge of the mailing list. Result - a kid who
can read what s/he wants to if s/he gets to the computer soon
enough and frustrated parents. What I find astounding is how many
of the parents (or other subscribers) can't read/follow the unsub
instructions included in each message.... although we even saw that
here very recently.
Mike
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