[Boatanchors] GRIPE

[Robert Moses]

The CAN SPAM act addresses just this sort of problem. Perhaps a
complaint to the appropriate agency (FTC, FCC, or whoever) will get the
site operator to follow customary policies on not adding people to the
mailing list without their permission and not providing an opt out link
on each e-mail sent out by the list as is required by law.

On 09/26/2013 07:19 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> Right,
>
> -John
>
> =============
>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Bill, go to the 'mailman.qth.net' website. Locate the list of options.
>>> Find
>>> the one that allows you to be removed from a list. Then follow the
>>> screen
>>> prompts and simply unsubscribe.
>> Duane,
>>
>> That will solve his problem that one time.  But going through all that
>> is a PITA, takes up his time, and he shouldn't have do to it, because
>> it is an ARC5 configuration problem.
>> I've been through all of that and forget about it after a few months.
>> Then some big confabulation takes place with a lot of cross posted
>> replies; I reply forgetting about what happened months earlier, and
>> I'm right back on the ARC5 email list again.  I don't have a command
>> set; I don't want a command set, I have little interest in them (no
>> offense but I simply don't) and that's the only email list I know of,
>> that automatically sucks people into it without asking them--why it is
>> set up that way I'd like to know.  Sure you can say I should be aware
>> of what I'm replying to, but if ARC5 list were set up right, my mail
>> to it would just get rejected like all the others do if I'm not a
>> member.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
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