Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help > him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course! > That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and* the > discussion about them would at least not last too long), but this can't > be easily done automatically [1].
It seems to me that the most common problem with mailing lists occurs when someone receives messages to an address of which they are unaware. The incident with Declan McCullagh/Politech/well.com and Fleishman-Hillard is a good example (see <http://www.politechbot.com/p-03395.html> for details.) To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that address_ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the magic word." That way, the clueless would have a fighting chance at getting off the list. If they are still incapable, perhaps they will include the tagline in their quoted reply so that others can take the appropriate action. I don't know how hard or easy this would be to implement, but it sounds nontrivial. I suppose there are some privacy / archival issues, such as the desire to scrub mailing list archives of email addresses to foil spambots. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
