Re: uns*bscr*be
Can somebody please explain this recent rash of people posting uns*bscr*be messages to the list? What's the matter, don't people pay *any* attention to the instructions they get when they s*bscr*be? Oh, I'm being silly. In this day and age, who has time to actually read instructions? Far better to bug several hundred other people with your unsuccessful attempts to uns*bscr*be than to actually have to spend a few seconds thinking. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody Meeting, n.: An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or department not represented in the room must solve a problem.
Re: uns*bscr*be
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:13:32PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > Can somebody please explain this recent rash of people posting uns*bscr*be > messages to the list? What's the matter, don't people pay *any* attention > to the instructions they get when they s*bscr*be? Oh, I'm being silly. > In this day and age, who has time to actually read instructions? Far > better to bug several hundred other people with your unsuccessful attempts > to uns*bscr*be than to actually have to spend a few seconds thinking. > > -- > Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody > Meeting, n.: > An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or > department not represented in the room must solve a problem. > The list server can no doubt be set up to divert such traffic. Unfortunately that increases the workload of the list maintainer. On the lists I maintain, there are unsubscribe instructions in the footer of each post. That doesn't entirely eliminate such requests being sent to the list, but at least it isn't an issue of users locating email that was (or was not) saved two computers ago. For example, Contributions/Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "unsubscribe" in message body Report Problems to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archive at: http://www.ssc.com/mailing-lists/ -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Correspondent SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-7733 x123 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/ -
Re: uns*bscr*be
Quoting Dan Wilder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:13:32PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > Can somebody please explain this recent rash of people posting uns*bscr*be > > messages to the list? What's the matter, don't people pay *any* attention > > The list server can no doubt be set up to divert such traffic. > Unfortunately that increases the workload of the list maintainer. As a list maintainer myself, I'm well aware of that. That's why I obfuscated the word "s*bscr*be". > On the lists I maintain, there are unsubscribe instructions in the footer > of each post. That doesn't entirely eliminate such requests being Yes, I do that as well, ever since I switched to using mailman instead of majordomo. It seems to work fairly well, even with such perpetually computer-clueless people as pilots. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody God is real, unless declared as an integer.
Re: uns*bscr*be
So, if enough others on the list would favor the addition of uns*bscr*be instructions to the posts, and if somebody can contact the list maintainer and pursuade him or her to add such, we might see a decrease in such nuisance postings. On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > Quoting Dan Wilder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:13:32PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > > Can somebody please explain this recent rash of people posting uns*bscr*be > > > messages to the list? What's the matter, don't people pay *any* attention > > > > The list server can no doubt be set up to divert such traffic. > > Unfortunately that increases the workload of the list maintainer. > > As a list maintainer myself, I'm well aware of that. That's why I > obfuscated the word "s*bscr*be". > > > On the lists I maintain, there are unsubscribe instructions in the footer > > of each post. That doesn't entirely eliminate such requests being > > Yes, I do that as well, ever since I switched to using mailman instead of > majordomo. It seems to work fairly well, even with such perpetually > computer-clueless people as pilots. > > -- > Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody > God is real, unless declared as an integer. > -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Correspondent SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-7733 x123 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/ -
Re: uns*bscr*be
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Dan Wilder wrote: > The list server can no doubt be set up to divert such traffic. > Unfortunately that increases the workload of the list maintainer. Not necessarily. One can simply divert administrative requests to /dev/null. Or auto-respond with a canned message. -Mitch
