Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:13:29 -0500
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 25 Jan 1998 to 26 Jan 1998

At 11:42 AM 1/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Gee, what a nice reply. Is Greg always so warm and accomodating?
>

99.99% of the time, yes; check the archives. In fact, in the message you
find cold and unaccommodating I gave the URL for the ADS webpage where one
can unsub oneself without having to remember, or look up, the command, and
conteact the list-owners.

I've just scrolled through the archives from Jan 1 through 19 (most recent
day archived), and there are nine or ten unsub requests sent to this list
alone. Every other day somebody posts to the list to get off, when no
list-members can do this for them. Multiply that by the number of lists a
given person might be on -- several dozen at a time. That's a *lot* of
futile offtopic traffic, day in and day out, for the hundreds of subscribers
on any given list. The repeated posting of unsub requests to lists has been
a major netiquette problem for years. And it's hard to avoid considering the
possibility that "ye olde pigritude factor" might be involved here....

Do you recall Denizen's lovely unsub requests a couple of days into the new
year? I could clip and repost a bit, but the FCC or somebody would maybe get
after me.

Best,

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu