tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 02 06:55:45 1999
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RE: This is [****]
Well, I hadn't thought of it that way, and I have in fact had problems with
trying to write a list when in fact it was the *other* email address that
was subscribed.
HOWEVER
If you are going to have multiple email addresses and subscribe to mailing
lists, isn't it your own responsibility to work out the attendant problems
without becoming abusive? If you have your reply-to address set to something
other than the address you are writing from, whose responsibility is that?
And if you are smart enough to muck with your email settings, why aren't you
smart enough to figure out that this is the problem, as opposed to some deep
plot on the part of a bunch of Klingons to send you unwanted email?
Dana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of William H. Martin
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 2:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: This is [****]
>
>
> Guys:
>
> All of these arguments ignore that it is quite possible to have
> a "reply to:" address that doesn't match what the mailing list
> expects for you, so following the procedure for unsubscribing
> simply doesn't work because the automated manager of the
> mailing list does not recognize the person asking to
> unsubscribe as being a member of the list. Automation of this is
> a great idea, except when it fails and then people get rude to
> you and act like you are an idiot because THEIR automated system
> failed.
>
> It's like cursing out someone on the phone because they called
> you and then they won't identify themselves when really the
> phone system is failing and they can hear you but you can't hear
> them. Sometimes systems fail. Don't always blame it on the
> people.
>
> charghwI'
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:31:28 -0400 (EDT) "Susan B. Farmer"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >>Any chance we could change the list subscription process to
> > >>include a two or three hour test of intelligence, personality and
> > >>email comprehension, before subscriptions are *allowed*?
> > >>Something a little more comprehensive than the GRE and LSAT
> > >>combined, perhaps.
> > >
> > >Don't forget the following questions, too:
> > >* Header deciphering (really now. Unsubscription info has been on every
> > >list email since the dawn of time, practically.
> >
> > Not anymore. Even when it was on the header, it *desn't* show up
> > unless your email client is configures to show it! A tag line works
> > *much* better.
> >
> > >* Email client knowledge: How to get client to show more
> headers, how to
> > >keep emails around, how to file important emails
> (*subscription alert* ahem)
> > >* 1,000 questions on etiquette, of which one must pass 950 of them...
> > >* Knowledge of how to obtain list chat without email - aka archives
> > >(especially since the online archive is so nice... too many
> 50+ email/day
> > >lists [often important] lack suitable archival/search tools).
> > >* Knowledge of how to send mail properly (i.e., *NOT* HTML formatted)
> >
> > Absolutely!
> >
> > tevram
> > [email protected]
>