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Subject: Re: Here's a question for you all...
From: Gess Shankar <gess @ knex . mind . org>
Organization: |<><>| Knowledge Exchange, GA, USA |<><>|
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 94 07:53:53 EDT
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199404250525.BAA06926@intercon.com>
Reply-to: gess @ knex . mind . org (Gess Shankar)

jailbait@intercon.com (Jailbait) writes:

> So.
> We've all gotten really sick and tired of misdirected sub and unsub
> requests.
> The question is, do all of you who run automated list maintainence SW
> have the <listname>-request set correctly so that, at the VERY least,
> the user who uses that address gets a note saying that this is an
> automated system and to do the following...?
> I really hope so...

Yes, I do so for all my lists. But this rarely gets used. Only people
who are veterans use such tactics. They also ask for 'help' when needed
and then do the needful.

<listname>-request convention is totally unknown to many of the newcomers
on the net scene.

GeSS
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Gess Shankar	  |<><>|Internet: gess@knex.mind.ORG			|<><>|


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