Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Help!!!...

["Jeff Holinski" <holinski@home.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@ebay.sun.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Help!!!...


> Hi Joe,
>
> Kind of funny, or sad depending on how one looks at it. Each and every
person
> who joins the PSUBS list gets a bounceback e-mail like below:
>
> --
>
> Welcome to the personal_submersibles mailing list!
>
> Please save this message for future reference.  Thank you.
>
> If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list,
> you can send mail to <majordomo@psubs.org> with the following
> command in the body of your email message:
>
>     unsubscribe personal_submersibles
>
> or from another account, besides Ray.Keefer@EBay.Sun.COM:
>
>     unsubscribe personal_submersibles Ray.Keefer@EBay.Sun.COM
>
> If you ever need to get in contact with the owner of the list,
> (if you have trouble unsubscribing, or have questions about the
> list itself) send email to <owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org> .
> This is the general rule for most mailing lists when you need
> to contact a human.
>
> ---
>
> Yet is seems that I often have to get involved in helping people to remove
> themselves. What is the problem?
>
> Regards,
> Ray
>

I see this all the time on other mailing lists I'm on too. The problem is
that most people tend to clean up their e-mail every now and then. (either
on purpose or by loosing Windows and having to re-install it) The directions
you get when you signed up can get lost pretty easy. Even regularly repeated
directions can get lost in the shuffle if you're on a busy list. (I've got
about 3000 unread messages in my lightwave list folder and it would take a
lot of digging to find one of the repeated messages on list commands)

If you're spending a lot of time taking people off the list why not repost
the directions once a week (it's only one extra message) and when people
still ask to be removed you just reply with the same directions.