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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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