I thought it was pretty funny that this post came to this list, too.

There are a couple of reasons I haven't seen mentioned why
listowners see so many unsub messages -- one is that so many people
(like me) subscribe to many different lists, which often have very
different address conventions and are run by different software --
listproc, majordomo, maiser, etc.  So they simply can't keep them
all straight, and asking other human beings for help is a whole lot
simpler than clawing your way back through 20 Megs of files and
messages looking for the intro message for listown-l.

More common, even, is the situation where the subscriber's address
has changed without her knowledge, and unsub messages are bounced
with the news that she's not subscribed.  Recent versions of
listserv are much better about explaining this, but even so, many
people, after having experiences like this a few times, just holler
for the list owner.  Me, I deal with it.

                                        -- Russ
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