At 10:04 AM 10/25/00 -0400, Adam Cohen wrote:
>Is it just me, or is everyone else getting these unsubscribe messages as
>well? Is there any way the list processor could be modified so that it
Everyone else is getting them.
I think unsubscribe requests come in waves. My theory is that when the
fall rolls around, students come back to school and get back on the net or
use the net more often and subscribe to different lists, etc. They get
busy with school work and want to unsub but forgot to keep the
directions. The sad thing is that these people don't even look at their
email or else they'd know how to unsubscribe.
The mailing list software _probably_ can't be modified to unsub people who
don't go through the specific procedures. It's probably running mailing
lists for many different lists out of ucsd so we cant re-configure it just
for our own whims.
It's a fact of life on the net that people who don't/won't/can't think
about these kinds of details will be a part of life on the net. I think
that's why there are so many financial scams and why (for example) that 12
year-old boy was able to get away with making $750K on the stock market in
a few weeks by manipulating people's opinions about stocks via the net.
12 years old! Even after the fines and whatnot, he walked away with $200K...
Gen
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