At 11:52 11/18/2002 Monday, Winship wrote: >On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Pete Weiss wrote: >> This is some of my boilerplate: > >Do you think such things really do any good, Pete? Oh, I know, a few >people pay attention, but most, in my experience, ignore such, are better >for a while, then revert to what's easiest, or reply with angry, abusive >diatribes. Principally it is used when they've included all of the headers and LISTSERV has interpretted as a possible email loop and instead of distributing it to the 4,000 subscribers has instead forwarded it to the list's BOUNCE (ERRORS-TO=) address. THAT'S one of the times I use the boilerplate. The other is when it's time to remind all subscribers of some list administrivia (there are about 10 items in that list). As far as "reverting" -- I don't explicitly track people's posting style; nevertheless on occassion, after posting the administriva to the list, that tends to pre-empt list-subscribers from trying to correct posters. I do get an occasional thank-you from folks who seem to agree with the suggestions and/or the work that goes into trying to maintain a quality information sharing list. So all in all, it seems like a win-win situation. But like you know that I'm fond of saying, YMMV. /Pete