It's nice that a few folks like this list, as well as some of the other
5 dozen or so offered at Team.Net. But boy, one thing I hate is that
list admin! When he isn't whining about some list management details,
he's begging for beer money. Sure, he *says* it goes to pay the monthly
out of pocket expenses and the occasional hardware upgrade, but who
really knows?
And some of the list rules, sheesh! Like the message size limit - what's
up with that? It isn't like including the entire original message in a
reply is going to waste bandwidth, or cause the archive search engine to
work harder going through stuff that has already been seen. And so what
if other list members get bounced off because the extra verbiage puts
them over quota. Adding the entire original message may propagate the
footer line with individualized links to subscriber's profiles, but
no bad guys are going to waste their time sending out bogus unsubscribe,
password changes or other such cruft just to be annoying.
Who looks at that unsubscribe/manage link anyway? If you want to get
off the list sending a message to the entire list should be sufficient,
no need to follow some simple link and pass up a chance to pester that
clueless admin. He must be pretty new at this, it is obvious he has
no idea what he's doing.
mjb.
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