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Date:    Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:36:30 -0330
From:    W Schipper <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ------------------------------
 
Date:    Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:36:30 -0330
From:    W Schipper <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Turning off 'Nomail'
 
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>         Is there any way to set up listserv to disallow the 'nomail' option?
>
 
Not to question your wish to do this too much, but isn't this like an
earlier question about not allowing people to leave a list.  There must
be perfectly good and necessary reasons to be set to nomail:  holidays,
being away from one's system for an extended period, small mailboxes
with a high volume list; not to mention preventin a spate of error
messages as mail boxes overflow, etc.
 
:-)
 
Bill
 
 
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Dr. W. Schipper                     Email: [log in to unmask]
Department of English,              Tel: 709-737-4406
Memorial University                 Fax: 709-737-4528
St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7
 
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>Date:    Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:36:30 -0330
>From:    W Schipper <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Turning off 'Nomail'
>
>>
>>         Is there any way to set up listserv to disallow the 'nomail' option?
>>
>
>Not to question your wish to do this too much, but isn't this like an
>earlier question about not allowing people to leave a list.  There must
>be perfectly good and necessary reasons to be set to nomail:  holidays,
>being away from one's system for an extended period, small mailboxes
>with a high volume list; not to mention preventin a spate of error
>messages as mail boxes overflow, etc.
>
>:-)
>
>Bill
>
>
>--
>Dr. W. Schipper                     Email: [log in to unmask]
>Department of English,              Tel: 709-737-4406
>Memorial University                 Fax: 709-737-4528
>St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7
>
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        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