Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/11/05/07:45:21
David Jenkins wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to intercept these "unsubscribe djgpp" posts and
> kill the articles before they went any further down the line, maybe even
> unsubscribing the user??
Probably so, but that would be the worst possible thing to do; it would
only encourage people not to read the instructions. Every user is sent
an email the first time he/she subscribes to the djgpp mailing list, and
is sent a monthly auto-verify message. Both of these contain
instructions for unsubscribing. There is NO excuse for not
understanding this, unless one cannot read English!
P.S.: Don't take me wrong here; I realize that for many people, English
is not the native language. However, it's usually easier to read a
foreign language than to write it, and they are at least fluent enough
to send an "unsubscribe" message.
P.P.S.: I wouldn't mind if the mail->news gateway blocked them from
being posted on the newsgroup, even if they weren't acted on... that way
we wouldn't get all these useless threads. :)
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