> >------------------------------
>
>         Well, why should someone be allowed to subscribe to the list if they are
> not taking traffic?  If they want to go holiday, then why don't they sign off
> and subscribe again when they are ready for traffic.
>
>         The 'nomail' feature is something that has always concerned me.  If you
> are paying for your list by the number of subscribers and thirty of them have
> their accounts set to 'nomail', then what is the point of paying for a bigger
> list?
>
>
>
>                                                                 Fred
>
On the largest list I manage there are a quite a number of subscribers
who have two or even three subscriptions in order to get around the fact
that the address their own system tells them is their mail address is
not the address LISTSERV picks up when they try to post to the list.
All but one of those addresses is set to NOMAIL to prevent multiple
messages.  Of course you might argue that one could have another
mechanism for this, one perhaps open to list owners only.
 
I really don't see the point of what you say: "Why should someone be
allowed to subscribe to a list if they are not taking traffic?"  I
always see this as parallel to the snail mail situation:  if you
subscribe to a number of magazines, and go on vacation, you don't cancel
the subscription when you go on vacation; instead you instruct the post
office not to deliver your mail for a while.
 
Bill
 
 
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