Rob Sterenborg wrote: > Steve Ingraham wrote: > >> I cannot help but comment on this post. >> > > Neither can I. > > >> I am one of those ignorant people that is subscribed to this list >> (along with several others) for the purpose of asking questions of >> you experts out there because I do not fully understand how it is >> working. By all accounts everyone of you out there would label me >> as a novice. The truth of the matter is I am a novice. As the >> saying goes; "I know enough about this stuff to be dangerous". >> > > Sorry, but this is the SpamAssassin list and the subject has nothing to > do with "how it's working". If the OP had a question about "how it's > working", he'd get an answer - I'm quite sure of that and I think you > know that. > > This specific thread has become a rant because the OP did not show that > he searched for himself first on how to do something simple: unsubscribe > from this list. If he put the least effort in finding information on how > to do that (how hard can it be to just go to the SA website and click > "Lists" to find the info?), he wouldn't have sent the email that started > all this. >
A lot of people don't see the difference between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (replace "owner" by "unsubscribe", "admin', 'request", ... depending on the list). They think these are the same addresses. you can't blame them, really. <nasty idea> for someone to post, he must subscribe, then unsubscribe, then resubscribe. only then can he post a message. Unfortunately, even this won't work (besides annoying us with an N steps procedure) as people will anyway forget... </nasty> I have already seen message saying "Please help me unsubscribe from your group...blah blah", and this was a reply to to group message, which signature contains the procedure to unsubscribe! (so if the guy just read the message before hitting the send button...). In short, he quoted a message that responds to his question. but if people were to search for information effectively, they wouldn't buy from spammers, and that alone would reduce spam! > >> What I would like to say by posting this is; why don't all you experts >> out there relax a bit? I, for one, acknowledge your superiority over >> > me > >> in this spam stuff. >> > > I don't think this has anything to do with anyones "superiority in this > spam stuff" (certainly not mine as I'm not). This has something to do > with willing to take the effort and finding things out for yourself > instead of just doing something and bother others with it (well, in this > case it would be "bother" I suppose). > > > Grts, > Rob > > >
