Re: Small little rant RE vacation messages

Mac Calder wrote:

>Okay people. Here is the _thing_ - like it or lump it.
>
>Most people have the common courtesy to exclude mailing lists from
>their reminder messages. Now, if for some reason, you do not have the
>ability to do so, PLEASE do it at the mailing list end. Go to
>http://lists.mlug.org.au/mailman/LISTNAME, enter your email address
>and password, and click the NO MAIL option - voila - no more MLUG
>emails til you uncheck the box! No more Vacation messages to the list,
>and I am a happy admin. If you fail to do it, I go in and do it for
>you. The problem is, then YOU cant remove it, YOU don't know why YOU
>get no MLUG emails, then YOU email me and ask why the list is dead, I
>spend 5 minutes looking, making sure there are no mail errors, only to
>find out that YOU were the annoying person who did not 'tick the box'
>before going on holidays.
>
>Basicaly, you don't tick the box, you waste my time, your time and
>everyone on the lists time. It takes a minute, if that.
>
>Done.
>
>Mac Calder
>

Not enough Maillist/Listserv admins jump up and down and tell the 
clients "This is the way it is" I hope your the first of many who do 
this ;o)