[CLUE-Tech] Re: UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF

[Joe Linux]

What you want is a community where people want to stay subscribed.

Matt Gushee wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:22:51PM -0600, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>
>>The only problem with this is that we don't want it to be a policy that 
>>sending unsubscribe messages to the list will get you taken off the 
>>list.  If people figure out that saying "unsubscribe me" doesn't work, 
>>then they won't do it.
>>    
>>
>
>Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work that way. I have seen the
>following sequence of events happen on several mailing lists, enough
>times to know it is not a fluke:
>
>   1. "Unsubscribe" message from John Doe appears.
>   2. 3 or 4 people respond. 2 are nasty, one is businesslike, another
>      kindly explains how to unsubscribe and why it's done that way (and
>      changes the subject to "How to unsubscribe."
>   3. 20 or 30 minutes later, an "unsubscribe" message from Jane Roe
>      appears.
>
>I won't try to explain this, but it happens. On some lists, I've seen it
>two or three times in a single day. Fortunately for us, this is a rare
>event on the CLUE lists.
>
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