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re: Unsubscribers should use their heads!

> Unsubscribers should use their heads!
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>    * To: pumpkins@athenet.net
>    * Subject: Unsubscribers should use their heads!
>    * From: Dan Gardner <dang@athenet.net>
>    * Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:11:50 -0500
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> For heaven's sake people, use your heads an be a little more responsible
> with the mailing list postings. The recent message from "Gigi Porter and/or
> Reggie Bannister <pmi@gte.net>" was posted no less THAN FOUR TIMES"! This
> means that they wasted the equivalent internet mail bandwidth of 4 messages
> X 300 subscribers for a grand total of 1,200 messages.  Gee, why is the net
> so slow....
> 
> Not to be a whiner, but I received over 1,000 messages (yes 1,000 messages
> folks) per week as the administrator of this list. Every message for every
> user on the list that is NOT successfully delivered comes back to my
> mailbox.  I have to spend twenty minutes each day just letting the bounced
> mail crap download and then process the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe"
> requests for those who are too lazy to do it themselves.
> 
> Whew! Enough said.
> Dan Gardner, list admin.
> 
> p.s. While I'm venting... I have to put up with crap like this recent
> message below from Ken Nicoll.  With people like Ken on the net, it is
> wonder that anyone puts together sites and runs mailing list on their own
> time for other's free enjoyment.  Please feel free to spam
> kennicoll.newcourt@sympatico.ca with your flames.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >I am not impressed with the volume of messages (upwards of 95%) that are
> >pure CRAP !!!!
> >
> >Please unsubscribe me "RFN" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >(note: RFN is considerably faster than ASAP & I'll let your mind soar on
> >its meaning.)
> >
> >Ken Nicoll
> 
> Would you like your money back, Ken?
> --Dan Gardner
> 
> Dan Gardner, Internet Pumpkin Enthusiast
> Appleton, Wisconsin USA
> http://www.athenet.net/~dang/pumpkins.html
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I agree with Dan, I run three mailing list and it is very time consuming
to support the people who can not read or follow simple instructions.
This is only the small part of the job. Sometimes we are looking for
addresses which are no longer valid or people have created .forward
files or their ISP switches email configs which causes even more work
than we want to deal with.  I know we all started out as newbies and we
had to  learn the hard way, but if you were able to subscribe, then you
should be able to unsubscribe.  Dan is like the most of us. We have full
time jobs, families, new born babies, and we even travel on the job. Dan
can be away for 2 weeks at a time and might not have the chance to
unsubscribe anyone during this time.  

Any time your join a mailing list, you should keep the instructions
explaining how to unsubscribe.  If the instructions are lacking in the
process, just follow the same process as you did for subscribing but use
the word unsubscribe.
-- 
Duncan McAlpine
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