I'm curious how many people did simply reply to the
offending email address.  I did.

I don't think many people on the list have
tried to get off it, so most probably don't know
how much of a pain it can be. I have two ways
of sending email. Through Eudora mail, and through
Pine.  Eudora mail sets my return address as
i@spots.ab.ca, while pine sets it to i@cheetah.spots.ab.ca.
Both addresses goto the same mailbox.

So, when I tried to get off the list, I got a reply
that said I wasn't even on the list. I imagine that
would stump most of the newbies that find there way
onto the piclist.  But after sending a half dozen
messages, I found the problem and sent the unsubscribe
mail from the proper address.

Perhaps we just need more specific instructions
in the "Welcome to the piclist" message, on how to
get off it.  And make it stand out more. The important
lines seem burried rather deeply in the message.



-Shane.



On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Robert Lunn wrote:

>         If we all just ignored the post, or pressed the replybot button
>         to send the poster some useful directions in private email, we
>         would have saved ten times the bandwidth originally wasted.
>
> ___Bob
>
> PS:     Mike, don't ignore the objections raised by the DIGEST users
>         to the 10% increase in average message size caused by the
>         repetitious unsubscribe appendage.
>
>         ...and my rubbish is not plain!  It has raisins in it.
>