Chris Thompson (cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk) said, on [010131 15:12]:
Secondly: some mailing lists have added headers or footers attached to each message giving directions on how to unsubscribe (or otherwise manage one's list entry). It doesn't totally eliminate unsubscribe
*sigh* You know, toasters *used* to be a place where admins gathered to talk about their filers. You know, people who had some slight bit of clue about how to interact with majordodo. It's not rocket science, after all.
It seems, however, that the list is attracting more and more attention form sales & marketing types. For whatever good (netapp) or evil (YKWYA) purposes, the folks who make the money seem to want to listen in. And thus these messages.
fubar? what do you think? administrivia at least?