Re: CasbahCarl's Email Address

From: silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <1998072603481300.XAA06829@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
casbahcarl@aol.com (CasbahCarl) wrote:
>You're right, Karen, I did forget. They're not very active lists and I frankly
>forgot I was a subscriber. I sent messages to all the mailing lists and
>provided an alternative address so that I could continue receiving messages.

That's not quite the same.  List owners say "If you can't be
troubled to do it yourself, I'll do the first but not the
second."

>I don't know what reason you may have to judge people's motives in this way.

Emailing them and asking "Do you know you've blocked messages
from a mailing list you subscribed yourself to?" and getting the
response "YEAH I HATE YOUR STUPID LIST IT WOULDN'T STOP MAILING
ME SO THERE!" is a pretty good indicator of motive.  Listowners
have gotten this thing after politely giving people explicit how-to-
unsubscribe messages in response to their posts (to the list) of
"STOP EMAILING ME YOU IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and things like
this.

>However, I can assure you that using the blocker as a means of unsubscribing
>from any mailing lists was not my intention. I keep all my introductory
>messages and unsubscribe the normal way.
>If my action inconvenienced you in any way, please accept my apologies.

It put yet another administrative bit on the listowners.

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References

Re: CasbahCarl's Email Address
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: CasbahCarl's Email Address
casbahcarl@aol.com (CasbahCarl)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000