Re: [LUNI] how do I get off this list?

From: Simon L. Epsteyn (seva@sevatech.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 16:36:23 CST

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    This conversation... is over...

    P.S. Someone was asking if the filter picks this up, and the answer is yes,
    I am not sure why original slipped through, but I've had to approve/moderate
    all the replies by hand... You don't see most of the subscribe/unsubscribe
    messages to the list. /Simon

    On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Jay Strauss wrote:

    > 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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