[Healeys] What I hate about this list...

[Roland Wilhelmy]

Like he said .....   ;-)

On my way to the 'donate' page.

-Roland

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:08:43 -0600 (MDT), mjb wrote:

::It's nice that a few folks like this list, as well as some of the other
::5 dozen or so offered at Team.Net.  But boy, one thing I hate is that
::list admin!  When he isn't whining about some list management details,
::he's begging for beer money.  Sure, he *says* it goes to pay the monthly
::out of pocket expenses and the occasional hardware upgrade, but who
::really knows?
::
::And some of the list rules, sheesh!  Like the message size limit - what's
::up with that?  It isn't like including the entire original message in a
::reply is going to waste bandwidth, or cause the archive search engine to
::work harder going through stuff that has already been seen.  And so what
::if other list members get bounced off because the extra verbiage puts
::them over quota.  Adding the entire original message may propagate the
::footer line with individualized links to subscriber's profiles, but
::no bad guys are going to waste their time sending out bogus unsubscribe,
::password changes or other such cruft just to be annoying.
::
::Who looks at that unsubscribe/manage link anyway?  If you want to get
::off the list sending a message to the entire list should be sufficient,
::no need to follow some simple link and pass up a chance to pester that
::clueless admin.  He must be pretty new at this, it is obvious he has
::no idea what he's doing.
::
::mjb.