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Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?



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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:55:28PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> In addition, I wonder... what about having such misplaced unsub-requests
> generate an auto-reply. Don't forward them anywhere, just fire back a
> form letter that says something  like:
> 
>   Apparently you're having trouble unsubscribing.
>   Unsubscribe requests should NOT be sent to the regular list address.
>   It's a shame you can't read.

Make it less abusive to the potentially misguided but harmless user
(assume they have a clue but cocked it up by accident).  Use procmail
to make an autoresponder (since messages come "from" each user instead
of the mailing list).

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