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Re: [Healeys] What I hate about this list...

To: Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] What I hate about this list...
From: I Erbs <eyera3@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:46:37 -0700
Hope this gets through the limit filter
LOL
That screed alone was worth the 12.50 alone. How did you arrive at  
that figure?

I Erbs
Sent from my iPod

On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com> wrote:

> 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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