At 12:16 PM 4/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Any opinions on the policy of carrying out sign-off requests that
>are sent to mailing lists?
If the requests make it past the administrative checks built into the MLM,
I generally carry them out, but when they get too common, I send notices to
the lists on how to unsub properly.
>Any thoughts about the best way
>for a list administrator to reduce or avoid such situations, and about
>to handle them when they arise?
I believe it is MANDATORY that all publicly-accessible lists require
confirmation from the prospective subscriber before subscription takes
place. That will eliminate the majority of prank subs. Even with that in
place, you will still occasionally get prank subscriptions, but since
implementing confirmation on my lists, I've gone from about one prank sub
per day to only one in the past couple of months.
As for how to handle them, well, the same way you'd handle any riot, I
suppose... I've had to be VERY firm on a few occasions, but as long as the
list members respect the admin's authority, that won't be a problem.
Dave Voorhis
mailto:dave@armchair.mb.ca
http://www.armchair.mb.ca/~dave
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