unsubscribing... etc

[Evan Leibovitch]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

>>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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>
>The requested URL /subscribe.shtml was not found on this server.
>
>Oh, yes, I did write to what I thought was email address of admin of this list 
>but that did not result in any outcome. Again, I may understand... but... I 
>want to unsubscribe ;)
>
>This all actually comes back to the problem I once mentioned: smtp is a mess, 
>a hugest mess on the internet bettween all other communication protocols. 
>  
>

I don't understand the jump from "it's difficult to unsubscribe from the 
TLUG mailing list" to "SMTP sucks".

Admin of a mailing list has little to do with the underlying protocols. 
Most lists to which I subscribe use mailman or some other such 
administrative tool that facilitates not only subscription options, but 
also related things such as digest and archive generation.

We've come a long way from the old listserv days, and even *that* 
involved a fairly simple unsub process compared to what you're going 
through. The fact that one list's administration is giving you problems 
hardly indicates an indictment of the delivery protocol. To be sure, 
SMTP has its warts -- but what you are going through is not one of them.

- Evan

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