[vsnet-chat 5890] Re: The Negative Effects of the VSNET Email Policies/Reply

[sanjay sharma <mars_osrp@yahoo.com>]

I had same experience. I had to block many of the list
incoming mails through Spam Filter and kept only those
in which I am interested - Sanjay Sharma

--- Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net> wrote:
> I'm another person frustrated by the VSNET email
> lists. After multiple 
> attempts to unsubscribe I'm resorting to bringing it
> up on this list.
> 
> First, and most importantly, please let people
> unsubscribe from VSNET 
> lists automatically. Whomever is the admin of these
> lists apparently 
> does not check their email! The whole purpose of
> list software such as 
> majordomo is to take the human-intervention out of
> routine requests 
> such as unsubscribe.
> 
> Second, I never signed up for VSNET lists in the
> first place. One day I 
> found myself subscribed to many, many VSNET lists.
> In one way, I am 
> honored. My name was probably noticed on the AAVSO
> list or something. 
> Still, it is very bad form to subscribe people to
> lists without their 
> permission.
> 
> VSNET is really, really cool and does great work. Do
> not jeopardize 
> this reputation by forcing multitudes of emails down
> our throats. Do 
> not subscribe people without their permission and
> allow people to 
> unsubscribe automatically.
> 
> Thanks for listening.
> 
> Michael Koppelman
> http://vsnet.lolife.com/astronomy/
> 


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