On February 14, 2003 at 18:27, Stephen Turner wrote: > 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.
I've gotten the same type of messages from time-to-time also, so I am sure the problem is not unique to mail-archive. I've gotten in the habit of ignoring them. > > 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? Maybe you should add a very prominate notice at <http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#support>. Maybe something like: NOTE: The [EMAIL PROTECTED] is strictly for discussions related to the mail-archive.com service, AND ONLY the mail-archive.com service. Messages related to the content archived on mail-archive are NOT appropriate for the list and will be ignored. Examples of appropriate topics for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * My list does not show up in the archives. * List messages are not getting archived. * Searching is not working. * ... > 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". I suspect the people who post these questions are completely clueless and not qualified to solve the problem they are asking about. --ewh _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
