[Mailman-Users] Feature Request -- Again

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Fri Jun 2 21:10:25 CEST 2000


Quoting J C Lawrence (claw at kanga.nu):
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:53:16 -0600 
> Richard Pyne <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:
> 
> > I am finding more and more all the time that people are using
> > email addresses that have absolutely NO relationship to their name
> > and most of my administrative requests are of the nature "Hi, I'm
> > John Doe and my new email address is hiphop at webmail.net. Can you
> > please update my address?".
> 
> I handle those with an equally simple reply:
> 
>   This is one of those things that is far easier for you to do than
>   I.  Just unsubscribe your old address and then subscribe the new.
>   To do this just go to the list page, plug in your subscription
>   address at the bottom.  On the next page is a button to
>   unsubscribe.  You can of course re-subscribe at the list page.
> 
> A variation of the same indicating the send-me-my-password button
> handles the, "Please unsubscribe me as I've forgotten my PW" please.

I still think my stock reply is more succinct and to the point:
-begin canned reply-
    No.
-end canned reply-
:-)


-- 
Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
"Only a NAZI would try to invoke Godwin's [law] deliberately"
    - Jeff Gostin in a.s.r




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