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RE: The Unsubscribing Problem



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At 11:30 AM 2/3/98 UT, Bill Eykyn wrote:
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>Peter2150 wrote:
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>I'd like to suggest that periodically John send out a post that everyone
>responds to and if you don't respond you are removed.  Or something like
this.
>Anyone else have any ideas's
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>For my two pennyworth, I would say that it is simply not worth getting all 
>steamed up about such posts.  They are always headed "Unsubscribe" or
include 
>the word in the text, so that all you have to do is press the delete button.
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>It is these heavy .gif files which are the real pain, if they are not your 
>subject.  In England, I have to pay to receive them, before pressing the 
>delete button, which is very irritating.  I suppose it can't really be
helped 
>and, such is the general quality of the forum, that one has to put up with
it. 
> Still, anyone got some ideas on that one?
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>As all those who have been on this forum for a year or more know, I only
trade 
>the T-Bonds, so when one is getting specific, lengthy posts on the S&P, the 
>OEX, stocks and shares, etc, it is a 'bore' to have to delete them - but
it is 
>hardly a headache, if they are well headed.   Anyway, I would rather have to 
>put up with getting stuff I don't want, in order to get the odd pearl that 
>appears.  For example, the posting about some new indicator with an .ela
file 
>is always worth a look...  The posts on computer problems can be very
helpful 
>(especially, if like me you are rather more literate than numerate!) and are 
>worth storing...   There are certain contributors who rate a file, because 
>their posts are nearly always worth saving for reading later (I will spare 
>their blushes, but I bet any list of names would be 'dittoed' by many...   
>Etc, etc.
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>Anyway, let me say that I think we owe a huge debt to Mssrs Kwong, Boggio, 
>Billington, et al at Kasanjian Research for running this show.  RT has to be 
>one of the better forums for traders to follow.  It is probably the best 
>organized and moderated website within the trading business.  
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>t-bondingly
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>Bill
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I don't have a problem personally with the .gif attachments.  But I do not
pull everyone of them up either.

Perhaps the .gif offerings should be required to be downloaded after the
fact, not be attached to e-mail to this site.  Is there a way to prevent
attachments?
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