>(totals up to 4 mails) upon sending ONE short note to the rietveld list...
>Does a technical solution to this problem exist ?
There are several things that people can do to reduce unwanted messages.
* Make sure your return email address is valid before you subscribe.
I routinely remove subscribers whose email address generates errors
(but can't catch them all). If this happens to you, simply resubscribe
(after checking your return email address eg by sending a message to
yourself) by sending "SUB Rietveld_l" (_l for list) to <listserv@ill.fr>
* Sign off by sending "SIG Rietveld_l" before you activate auto email
answering systems, or configure them not to auto-answer to the list.
* Address personal messages to individual subscribers, not to the whole
list eg if a given ftp address does not work, everyone should not complain
to the whole list. And of course, check ftp/http addresses before posting.
* Don't repeat verbatim earlier messages, just enough for people to
make the connection - they already have the earlier message.
You will still receive some unwanted messages, but that is the price
to pay for using a mail list instead of an internet newsgroup. Just
hit the delete key :-)
Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <hewat@ill.fr> tel (33) 4.76.20.72.13
ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/dif fax (33) 4.76.48.39.06 http://www.ill.fr/dif/