Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:54:38 -0500
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I see.
Wouldn't it be better to notify the list owner that in accepting the
next subscriber request, he is exceeding his user limit? It should give him the
option to accept it and then have the listserv notify sales, or reject it.
Certainly with the power of software today this shouldn't be much of a problem
to code.
Fred
On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Right now it will let you exceed your subscriber quota, and the sales
>folks will get back to you when that happens. This is a technical
>restriction rather than a design decision; it isn't a good procedure at
>all. It's only a matter of time until someone starts screaming at our
>sales folks because the list went past the limit and now someone *has* to
>be kicked off and the owner is faced with the very delicate decision of
>deciding who it should be, and this will be escalated and by the time the
>ordeal is over we'll have wasted more $$$ in manpower than the list would
>generate in 3 years of operation. I'm currently testing code to enforce
>the subscriber limits that people have paid for, and we'll start
>deploying it sometime this week. Nobody is going to complain that the
>list isn't accepting more subscribers than they've paid for :-)
>
> Eric
>
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