From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello Mike, rising to the challenge!
No, I have no way of easily finding out when others have posted complaints to
this list about this idiosyncratic feature, unless it is in the subject line
(or else I have to wait for a longish search). But teaching us not to respect
messages is the sort of things that makes you disobey traffic rules, and I
suppose it may create a drinking problem if you did not have one already.
It has been stated before: those who receive their own mailing back via
ARSCLIST have no problem at all, because they realize that the error message
is the error (McLuhan with a twist). But those, whose system prevents this
think that it is a real problem; they have no way of knowing that the message
went through loud and clear.
I am apparently a much too frequent poster. Since 22 May 2009 I have received
156 such messages. It seems it was then it started, in the middle of a
discussion of pest control. Some pest!
Kind regards,
George
> Art Shifrin wrote:
> > I am reposting this because it was rejected by the evidently absurd
> criteria
> > of redundancy that 'rules' this list.
> > It happens (at least to me) too often. IF it is again rejected, then I
> will desist from trying
> > tio share information with this list: instead
> > providing information only to specific posters.
> >
>
Mike Biel wrote:
> You are not paying attention. This has been explained on the list over
> and over and over and over.
>
> EVERYBODY GETS THIS MESSAGE *EVERY* TIME AND EVERYTHING GETS POSTED
> ANYWAY.
>
> I will get a message about this message. And you will get another if
> you post a reply. It just happens and the Library of Congress seems to
> be unable to fix the problem, so we live with it and keep telling
> newbies and others who haven't been paying attention about the problem
> again and again.
>
> Perhaps George Brock-Nannestad can give us the statistic on how many
> times someone has told a poster about this problem. Must be, what, 30
> or 40 times at least.
>
> Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
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