Gen Kanai wrote:
> 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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