At 11:14 AM -0800 2/2/97, Cindy Stanley wrote:
>Sad as it is, I got a really good laugh while reading this. It is
>OH-SO-TRUE! But, I must also add that these problems are not just limited to
>AOLers. Clueless subscribers are *everywhere*.
>
>Just in the past month for example I have had bounces from:
I got a few myself:
* One guy has so far replied eight times to my "do not reply" probe
message, evidently because he thinks this is funny. No message, just
replies with the original included. I have, of course, taken this as an
indication he really wants to be unsubscribed to my lists, and done so.
(I've had a few others of these, also, and assumed the same there...)
* I've been having a running "thing" with one user who's been
repeatedly subscribing to my lists, only to have all of the mail sent
to him bounce back because of a quota restriction. This has been going
on at least three weeks. He evidently has never figured out the lack of
mail coming in is beacuse of this, because he keeps resubscribing. One
wonders if he'll ever stop to wonder why none of his mail is working...
And from the system side, on this probe I'm doing, best.com, for
reasons only it knows, delivered the probe message to its users, and
then chose about ten at random to ALSO return to me with a "user
unknown" message, so I promptly dropped them.And now I've heard from at
least four wondering why they got dropped, even though they did exactly
what I asked them to do in the message (i.e. nothing...). If Best.com
had dumped ALL of its subscribers, or even a large percentage, I would
have caught this. Why they did this to ANY of them, well, I'm sure
those users are going to ask... It makes one wonder what other mail
they're bouncing....
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