Barney Wolff writes:
>It strikes me that most or all of the recent spate of misspelled
>u*n*s*u*b*s*c*r*i*b*e messages have been from senders whose English
>skills may not be up to par. Rather than remonstrating with them
>endlessly, perhaps Majordomo should be modified to accept all of
>the half-dozen or so variants. None of them are valid English
>words, so there is no risk of false positives in picking out list
>maintenance messages from the stream.
>
>Barney Wolff <barney @
databus .
com>
The problem is not just the incorrect spelling. If the requests were sent
to Majordomo, poor spelling or not, they wouldn't end up in our mailboxes.
Perhaps we could tolerate a once a month (even once a week?) distribution
of "How to get off this list"? Would certainly beat the annoyance of all
the incorrect messages and discussion threads like this one.
Stephen Goldstein steveg @
cseic .
saic .
com
My first computer: A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, November 1980
Disclaimer: That's not what I said.
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