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How do I unsubscribe from this list. Just Joking.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Maney" <maney@pobox.com>
To: <luni@luni.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] how do I get off this list?
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:41:37PM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote:
> >
> > > bottom left corner, main page.
> >
> > upper center something like:
> ...
> > additionally, put a link with the <mailto: blahblah> on
> ...
>
> Bottom line: no matter what you do there will be people who won't see it.
I
> know all about this from the number of times I get asked a question that's
> answered by a brief, clear description ont he screen in front of their
> faces. Nor is there any very stong correlation between "smarts" and the
> frequency of such "stupid" questions, except that the students in the
> advanced classes tend not to ask the same question the next time they're
> in the lab... at least not as often.
>
> In other words, "unsubscribe?" will be with us always. Trying to filter
> them won't catch every one, and as we've seen can catch normal traffic
from
> time to time. (I wonder if Simon will have to rescue this missive from
the
> filter?) What we need is not to pile yet more marginally useful hacks up
in
> vain hope that they will perform a miracle; rather, we need a sensible
plan
> for dealing with the ones that will, inevitably, get past a reasonable
> filter (which may be no filter). I think the plan might look something
like
> this:
>
> 1) DO NOT RESPOND TO THESE ON-LIST.
>
> 2) An informative e-mail, probably a canned response, should be sent
> privately. Ideally we could have a perfect filter that does this
> and sends exactly one such response, but duplicates aren't a problem
> as long as you SEE RULE #1.
>
> 3) Please apply RULE #1 when replying to those who did not themselves
> follow RULE #1.
>
> 4) Don't forget RULE #1, please!
>
> Oh, and it would probably be a fine idea if new subscribers were sent a
copy
> of this information and/or if it were available on the web site, but
that's
> just an optimization. :-)
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