All:
I discovered yesterday that I was the first person to be
able to successfully unzubscribe from a mailing list, without
having to get the list-owner's help. << It appears that
people don't know how to send a confirmation message. >>
In the last five weeks, I've helped launch five mailing lists,
that cover similar topics to that list, and for every individual
that has successfully
zubscribed to one of those lists, I've had 50 complain that they
can't zubscribe to these lists becuase the zubscribe mechanism
doesn't work. << Again, it appears that people don't know
how to either send an original message to the right address,
or a confirmation message, when one is requested. >>
A semi-typical example, is the person who tried to set
herself to NOMAIL. She knows the listname is list-l, but
sends a message to "set nomail list-1." And then complains
because it doesn't set list-l to nomail, but generates an
error message.
Is this degree of cluelessness something that _might_ be
specific to the lists I run, or is it a general phenomena?
If it is the latter, what action are other list-owners taking,
to combat it? << Other than using them as fodder for
HumourNet. >>
xan
jonathon
grafolog@netcom.com
I accidentally wrote "will hack Python for food" in my
cover letter.
The company decided that was enough of a recommendation to
hire me as their sole SysAdmin.
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