Hi All:
This is a response in reference to a posting made earlier and to this posting.
Attempting to install a Winmodem I ask the appreciate question on the
appreciate list.
As usual someone referred the question to the FAQ and suggested I read it.
So I did.
I followed the instructions explicitly with results of complete failure.
I posted the results to the list from on which I was immediately trashed for
follow "has been" outdated instructions.
It seems that the FAQ instructions are for version 1.x.x with the 1.x.x file
referenced while the current version is 8.x.x.
After a number of experience like this ones learns not to pay too much
attention to instructions and the people who believe that instructions once
written are never outdated.
In response to Paul's question of why people can not follow instructions it
could be that the procedure simply does not always work.
In the past I have had to unsubscribe from slug in order not to overflow my
mailbox for a short duration when I had to leave town due to business
reasons.
I have found that with considerable effort it can take up to an hour to
unsubscribe. Why?
Consider the following:
IF I do the following I generally succeed in resubscribing:
____________
From: Frank Roberts - SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
To: majordomo@nks.net
unsubscribe slug
____________
IF I do the following it generally fails even though it should work too.
____________
From: Frank Roberts - SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
To: majordomo@nks.net
unsubscribe slug sotl155360@earthlink.net
____________
When adding time for some reason there are a number of people who can not add.
They assume that the only time involved in carring out of an action is the
actual time performing it. As any accounting will tell you this is not true
so when adding time don't to forget to add in all the time: time spent
figuring out what to do, time to doing it, and time spent verifying that the
action has been carried out correctly and cleaning up your mess (or shutting
down).
As far as Paul posting of using
s*bscr*be or uns*bscr*be
I haven't tried it but I have my droughts.
Another thought most list proved a following giving instruction on how to get
to the web site and how to unsubscribe.
As some would say just my $02 worth.
Thanks
Frank
Paul posted that On Sunday 01 December 2002 22:30, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I'm seeing entirely too much traffic from people trying to s*bsc*be and
> uns*bscr*be from the lists the wrong way. You don't see a lot of this
> traffic, because it bounces from the list, but I get it. Really, it's
> not that hard. A while back I redesigned the Lists page so that all you
> have to do is _read_, click on some links and follow simple
> instructions. It's really this simple (in the following examples, remove
> the asterisks from the sacred words and substitute the proper letters;
> also, take out the greater-than and less-than signs):
>
> Either, 1) issue the following command at your prompt:
>
> echo uns*bscr*be <list-name> <email.address> | mail majordomo@nks.net
>
> where <list-name> is slug, slug-announce, slug-digest, etc. Or, 2) send
> an email to majordomo@nks.net, with the _body_ of the email containing
> the message:
>
> uns*bscr*be <list-name> <email.address>
>
> That's it. Simple. One other proviso: you _must_ s*bscr*be or
> uns*bscr*be _from_ the address in question. That is, if the address you
> want to uns*bscr*be is joeblow@hotmail.com, you have to send your
> uns*bscr*be email _from_ that address. Otherwise, I have to do it, which
> is a pain. I can do it, but it's usually unnecessary; you generally know
> ahead of time that you're going to terminate an email address, so you
> usually have time to send your email before that address goes away. And
> don't send such requests to the list address. It either annoys people or
> bounces, neither of which is what you want. Send it to the majordomo
> address, as above.
>
> Okay? Feel free to clip and save this email. It's pretty much a
> duplicate of what's on the SLUG Lists page. Go ahead tape it over your
> monitor screen, so that every time you go to use your computer, you have
> to move it out of the way. Or you can copy it onto a post-it note and
> put that on your screen, if you think it'll stay on there. Tattooing
> also works, in case you're inclined in that direction.
>
> ;-}
>
> Paul
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