[vsnet-chat 5907] Re: The Negative Effects of the VSNET Email Policies

["Stan Walker" <astroman@xtra.co.nz>]

OK Taichi,

Then how did I end up on the GRB list? I haven't the slightest interest in
these objects yet get loads of useless comment about them. Perhaps you could
manually get me off that list.

Regards,
Stan




----- Original Message -----
From: "Taichi Kato" <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: <vsnet-chat@ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 5893] Re: The Negative Effects of the VSNET Email
Policies


> Re: [vsnet-chat 5889] The Negative Effects of the VSNET Email Policies
>
> > 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.
>
>    This statement can cause a misunderstanding.  Please have a look at
> e.g. vsnet-chat 5344, which relayed your call for obvervation.
> You were subsrcibed to this list (not many) in order to allow your
postings.
> We usually keep these information senders on the relevant lists, which is
> a quite natural list-maintaining policy.  In processing administrative
> requests, we usually apply some sort of delay (variable depending on the
> list nature) before finally confirming whether the request is a valid one.
> This rule has been also used to avoid an instataneous subscription,
> message posting, and unsubscription, as in some spam postings.  This is
> why we don't use automatic Majordomo processing.
>
>    People who have been unsuccessful in unsubscribing to some specific
> list may have sent a request to a wrong address (such as owner-vsnet-xxx);
> postings to these addresses (mostly spams and simple errors) are usually
> automatically discarded.
>
>    Use vsnet-complaints list for further comment on this topic.
>
> Regards,
> Taichi Kato
> VSNET admin
>

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