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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Shawn Hogan wrote:
Re: Get me off this list please!
From: James Smallacombe
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 1998
Time: 11:11:26 am
> Alexi wrote:
>
> >These posts remind of the chimpanzee that can stick his hand in a jar to
> >grab a fruit, but doesn't know how to let go to get his hand out.
> >
> >How can someone subscribe to a list if they don't know how to get off it?
> >
> >Shawn, I mentioned this before about putting a default unsubscribe at the
> >bottom. I'm not sure if that would even work. We may need to have all
> >posts be in html, and you can put a big banner at the bottom that flashes
> >and blinks and gets everyone's attention on how to unsubscribe.
>
> Well, I don't host the list, so I have no power to add headers or footers
> or anything like that... Eventually (when I get some time), I'm going to
> move the list over to one of my servers so I can do stuff like that (as
> well as an automatic searchable archive). The archiving system I hacked
> together *works*, but it's a major hassle on my end, because I wrote a
> program that I tied into my email program. When a list message is
> received by my email program, it contacts the archive server and dumps it
> to the archive.
>
> Not real clean, but it works until I have something better... (A
> dedicated list machine)...
Weeeelll...I could be talked into hosting this for you on a
qmail/ezmlm/-idx box for discount on my first copy of SW... :)
James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware
james@pil.net Valley in PA, NJ and DE
PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net
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