Re: pharting loonies and unintended sign-ups...

[farna@xxxxxxx]

On November 23, 2005 Jerry Casper wrote:

> --- bens33ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > > How do these loonies end up here anyway ?
> 
>   Because some email programs allow a person to enter
> in a different address or someone ELSE's Email
> address, and doesn't care about the true source ( ie,
> originator) address. So someone with this type of
> email can enter in ANY email address to sign up for
> anything, including YOURS, and there's nothing you can
> do about it. 

That may be the case, but the sign-up system for the list is wide open alos. It doesn't check for addresses, just assumes you signed up since the address has to be manually entered. I could turn on moderation and have to "allow" each and every application, but don't want to do that. I will if abuse gets to be a problem. 

>   So, getting mad at these people who say they never
> signed up for this is useless, and those who do get an
> attitude should chill, because it's true that they
> probably didn't, someone else with a
> "return-to-3rd-party" email system probably did it as
> a prank. Just show some understanding and unsubscribe
> them, please. 

Very good advice!! 

> Unfortunately, that usually falls on the
> Moderator of the list, but at least these don't happen
> frequently.

I'm not sure it's unfortunate, just comes with the territory! Sometimes it takes 2-3 days to notice the problem is all. There are 2-3 other people with admin rights to take care of things like this, though I do most of it. 



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