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Re: Unsubscribers should use their heads!

Dan,

Appreciate what you are doing administrating this list.  I appreciate
all the time you spend removing those unsubscriber burrs from under all
our saddles.  

You are certainly entitiled to vent, but one of the things I have
enjoyed about this list is the lack of expressed animosity.  I
especially appreciate anything that you as the administrator do to keep
the tone congenial.  Additionally, I suspect the type of volume spam
that you encourage here slows the Net far more than stupidity.  Just my
opinion, no data on this.

Regards, 
Chris Wilbers
Sious Falls, SD

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Dan Gardner wrote:
> 
> 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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