from the quill of David Shaw <dshaw@cs.jhu.edu> on scroll
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> Many people here seem to be in favor of some sort of list confirmation
> system. The thing is - what does this do to your average clueless luser?
You mean those same lusers that won't know how to unsubscribe when they are
done. Instead they will send unsubscribe messages to the list, and get all
pissed off when that doesn't work and start abusing the list users, etc.
Don't want 'em thanks.
> Speaking as someone who routinely gets *scribe requests to every possible
> address _except_ majordomo, and who has seen people reply to a list
> message with "t a k e m e o f f" and quote the whole messsage, INCLUDING
> the un*sub instructions attached to every message, I have serious doubts
> of the ability of these lusers to comphehend what a list confirmation IS!
So the confirmation has an added bonus of being a "mailling-list IQ test"
at the same time. Whooopeee, bonus. :-)
b.
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