On 14 Feb 2003, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > Every time I get one of these weird posts, I beg the poster > to tell me why they thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the right > place to ask. Invariably, the poster will either simply > repeat the question or not reply. >
My best guess is that they google for some information, find a semi-relevant mail on mail-archive, and then try and find out who runs this helpful "mail archive" service that can answer their questions. > It's weird; gossip has 135 subscribers and I'd rather not > see us get this type of "spam" but I have no idea how > to prevent it. Maybe I should expand the footer of > gossip messages to remind everyone of the topic? > I really doubt that would help. I wondered if you should call the list [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I doubt even that would help: I suspect that the people who are posting these questions haven't worked out that the information they've googled for wasn't provided by "mail-archive". -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
