Yikes! Being a (List) Mom is Hard Work!! Wonder if it's easier for a Major
Domo . . . ?
Thanks for all of your efforts on behalf of the list!
ScottGee1
On 6/15/05, Thomas Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 15 Jun 2005, at 20:28, AG Schnozz wrote:
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> > List Mom wrote:
> >> Roger Skully should hereby have been unsubscribed.
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> > Don't let this happen to you.
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> > What the L.M. didn't mention is that whoever unsubscribes gets
> > all of the filtered spam forwared to them.
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> Speaking of spam, btw....here're some facts which may be interesting
> (or not...):
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> The amount of spam which the addresses, associated with this list
> (olympus@ olympus-owner@ olympus-request@) receives today has climbed
> steadily, and now amounts to ~1200 pieces of spam/day -- that is, after
> my spam-filter has taken the top off of it. It also explains why I,
> occasionally, may miss a request-for-something among the flood.
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> Add to that bounces from listees going on vacation, changing
> email-addresses without unsubscribing, having ISP's that do stupid
> things to their mailserver etc., which is ~400 pieces/day -- that's the
> "stuff" that I usually try to do something about (in a more or less
> patient fashion).It's only fun so many times to convince various ISPs
> to behave correctly -- it often goes like this: "No, this is a
> MAILING-LIST......nono, not SPAM, mail...you know, a mail-reflector
> that you sign up for? No no, it has nothing to do with spam, really,
> your customer actually asked for these emails. No, it's not the same as
> a WWW-forum, it's a mail-reflector -- what? No, I am not selling
> email-address lists to mass-marketers, that's not what a mailing-list
> is....." -- at which point I either explain how the Internet works (!)
> -- or start looking forward to the evening drink while producing
> graphic images in my of the ISP-employee be crushed under a falling Sun
> E10K....
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> Of course, it could be worse....until recently, it was about 100-200 of
> those ISP-induced bounces more per day -- until a seasoned listee among
> us had enough of a particularly un-responsive (and irresponsible) ISP
> and axed his connection with them to get one that actually works. Hi
> Bill -- I owe you a beer or something for that some day ;)
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> > AG-List Lap-dog
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> Well, as long as you stay off the furniture....;)
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> --thomas
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