Re: ADV: "SUPER LOW [blah blah blah]"

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

The Boss:

>Anyone can send a message to the list.

Ah, I hadn't realized that.

>The point is that, in the teeny digital minds of list processors,
>"subscriber" means . . . an account.

Yes, silly old me--until a year or so ago I couldn't imagine that anybody
would think it could mean anything else. But, remarkably, some people do
think that mailing lists divine their changes of mail address. As the
administrator of a list that only lets members post, I'm frequently asked
why such and such a message hasn't been accepted, and usually find that the
subscriber's address has changed. The worst people--sorry, the most
optimistic--seem to be US university professors. Perhaps they think that
this sort of thing is handled by the obliging chaps who stick the cables
into their computers (or "My" computers, as Microsoft terms them).

That list of mine is very small and somnolent; running this one must be a
lot more arduous.

If anyone's interested: of course zipclabber@xxxxxxxx, eager informant
of deals of the millennium, is not the real address of anybody at all (I
checked), let alone of "FazeOne Online Promotions".
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Peter Evans