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Re: The Sociology of UNSUBSCRIBING
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> About half a dozen messages like this one are posted here every week:
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> > PLEASE READ! (sorry to shout)
> >
> > All subscription requests should be sent to [email protected]
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>
> Despite this, every day there are several "Unsubscribe me, NOW!"
> messages, with various degrees of politeness.
>
> Folks, I am not going to repeat the instructions again. This is
> becuase of the following conclusions I have reached:
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I've seen before, and if I breakdown and write my own software I'm
going to improve on, mailing list software that refuses to send
messages to the list that look suspicious. Rules like:
<3 lines non-blank body, occurance of remove, me, unsubscribe, help,
subscribe, etc.
These generate a message giving details, and of course you could even
guess what the person wanted.
Looks like a necessary evolution in net software...
I typically try reasonable auto commands for a new mailing list until
I know there's a person there.
sdw
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