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Subject: Re: Stupid Mailing List Tricks
From: Sharon Shea <sshea @ world . std . com>
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 14:38:18 -0400 (EDT)
To: Stephanie da Silva <arielle @ taronga . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9405051447.AA21966@taronga.taronga.com>

> 
> I dunno, this general trend of thinking that all mailing lists are managed 
> by listservs seems to be a fairly recent one, within the last year and a half.
> Or maybe I just was lucky the first year or so I ran my lists and missed the 
> fun.  Part of the confusion seems to be from people thinking that "listserv" 
> and "mailing list" are synonymous terms.  Oh, well.  The sub/unsub problem is
> an ongoing thing and is why I moderated my second list (an abusive user was
> why I moderated the first one).

Must be you've been lucky up until now. However, there is progress in 
that now they are getting used to the idea of majordomo as well as listserv.
After much patient explaining about how to sub & unsub from my list, I 
got one back (to my address) saying:

               subscribe majordomo

*sigh*........

-Sharon


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