[4182] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: What is happening to this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Wed Jan 29 14:31:31 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:34:53 -0800 (PST)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
Reply-To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
To: Dave Wreski <tel1dvw@is.ups.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970129110253.13595X-100000@butthead>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, David W. Morris wrote:
>
> > Everyone who wants to be on the list would have to re-subscribe and
> > perhaps the many folks who can't remember how to unsubscribe would
> > be nicely dropped and we'd all be happier.
>
> Nice idea, but the problem is that there may be three this week, three
> next week, etc. Even if we did this once a month, we would still have to
> deal with people during the month. A better idea would be to periodically
> mail unsubscribe info to the list, to serve as a reminder.
I doubt that would help ... one of the recent clueless unsubscribe
requests followed a recent repeat of the unsubscribe directions. I suspect
that when one get frustrated enough they have long since stopped reading
posts.
>
> I just can't believe that people think there is a moderator here
> perusing the list simply to watch for unsubscribe requests.
I agree,
On the otherhand, the list software could easily handle mail whose subject
or body was solely some form of unsubscribe or perhaps adorned with
please or where 25% of the word content was unsubscribe.
In fact, I think some software does which leads people to expect it
on every list.
I've heard of some lists where every post has a brief description of how
to unscribe and where to get the list 'charter'.
Dave Morris
