Thanks for the information, Mike.
Yes, for some number of years now, for the folks that ask/demand that I/we unsubscribe them ... well, I got tired of constructing individualized replies from off-the-top-of-my-head - plus adding any details that might be particularly relevant/pertinent ... so I created a template: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:unsubscribe And, for at least as long as I've been using essentially that text, it seems "well enough" constructed to be quite effective. It reasonably puts the "burden" back on the requester - also providing relevant information - and seems sufficiently effective. Seems they either successfully unsubscribe, or maybe they just move on to complain about other stuff they ought do themselves that they want someone else to do for them. In any case, at least thus far, when I've sent such email, don't think I ever heard from them (whomever) again asking/requesting/demanding that I(/we) unsubscribe them.
And I think Rick's actions on the clean-up, etc. sound perfectly fine to me - thank you Rick! Very possible/likely some fair number of years back, someone mishandled it or overreacted or made sub-optimal choices as to best handling/reaction.
I also have a boilerplate response to the "can I post a job" queries: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:can_i_post_a_job_-_and_boi...
references/excerpts:
From: "Mike Higashi" mhigashi@gmail.com Subject: Re: [BALUG-Admin] A certain Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:12:21 -0700
A post from 2009 that may, perhaps only partly, answer your question. I've edited it to include the extra spaces that Rick used in the original post.
Mike Higashi
Date: 3/16/09
From:
to: , balug-admin
Hi :
[removing rsvp@balug.org and including balug-admin@lists.balug.org]
Sorry for the difficulty that you are having unsubscribing. You should be able to unscubscribe from the following page:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
You will also need to respond to the auto-confirmation email that is sent to all unsubscribe events in order to be removed from the list.
I hope this is helpful.
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From: [mailto:] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 1:48 PM To: rsvp@balug.org
I have tried to unsubscribe to this list, it doesn't work, how can I get off of this list?
Thanks,
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu wrote:
From: Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu Subject: [BALUG-Announce] TOMORROW!: BALUG: Tu 2009-03-17 Jordan Gray (STARPAUSE) talk/demo on DJing and Music Composition on Linux To: balug-announce@lists.balug.org Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 12:53 PM