On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 02:33:32PM -0500, Adam Bailey wrote:
> On 11/27/97 12:37 AM, jonathon <grafolog@netcom.com> wrote...
>
> > Is this degree of cluelessness something that _might_ be
> > specific to the lists I run, or is it a general phenomena?
>
> A little bit of both. I tend to find that certain segments of society and
> the online world have a harder time than others. For example, a list I
> run for fiction writers has more problem subscribers than a list I run
> for science fiction fans. Users of online services tend to have more
> problems than users of ISPs. But overall, as the net becomes more and
> more mass-market, you get more and more people who can't follow simple
> directions.
As it was so wisely put in the majordomo config file:
# Set the default subscribe policy for new lists here.
# If not defined, defaults to "open", but in today's increasingly
# imbecile Internet, "open+confirm" or "auto+confirm" is a wiser
# choice for publicly available Majordomo servers.
David
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