michael considine wrote:
I'm not sure if you are a private subscriber or not sorry if I have sent my
previous reply to the wrong person I don't understand why they sent 159 Email's
to me.
Regards
Michael Considine
Hello Michael,
Sorry to bother you with these details, but your email comes at a
particularly interesting moment in time, coinciding with a discussion
begun by myself regarding this subject. (well kind of on subject at least)
This is a mailing list - for you to receive 159 messages you needed to
have requested your email address be added to the list.
After that - a confirmation email was sent to that address.
After that - you would of needed to respond to that confirmation email,
in the affirmative.
(These last two steps are done as a precaution, so that no other person
could register your address without your knowledge )
The first email you sent a few minutes ago was processed directly the
the list - which means that this registration process had been
successfully completed.
Looking at all emails to the list from April 2008 up to and including
yesterday I fail to find any other emails from your address, so I take
it that this was your first email to the list. This shows that your
email address was never used to as an un-subscribed email address.
(During this time frame appx. 20,000 emails where processed through the
list from both subscribed and un-subscribed addresses.)
Two possibilities exist therefore:
1) A subscription using your email address was performed without your
knowledge. In this case this really needs to be reported to the
appropriate individuals as there is a serious problem with the software
or the process.
2) The instructions and information presented on our web sites is very
poor and lead you to creating a subscription without adequately
explaining what would be coming - a lot of emails. Another problem but
of another type and needing a different solution.
If either of the two possibilities above are in fact the case please let
us know via the list so that appropriate actions can be started.
Also, let me point out that OpenOffice.org directly and indirectly
through it's supporters, provides a number of informational services
such as this list, web based forums, on-line knowledge bases, web sites
and a wiki. None of those services, not a one, require that you be
registered, or subscribed, in any way to browse or search the
repositories offered by them.
Finally, I believe others have already pointed you towards how to remove
your email address from the list.
Best wishes,
Drew
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