[Air-l] Tutorial: How to unsubscribe from air-l

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If this list is 'unmoderated' why do some of my messages NEVER appear?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Holly Kruse" <holly-kruse at utulsa.edu>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Tutorial: How to unsubscribe from air-l


> Are people perhaps misunderstanding how an unmoderated
> Listserv- (or similar software) based email discussion
> list works?  An email message sent to air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> by any subscriber is distributed to all subscribers.
> To stop getting all the messages sent to the list by
> subscribers, one has to unsubscribe from the list
> either through the web interface or through an message
> sent to the unsubscribe address.
>
> I hope I'm not out of line here, because I'm only
> involved in this list as a subscriber and in AOIR
> as a member.  I do know though from founding and then
> years of adminstering a huge unmoderated email list that
> started out running with the old majordomo software
> and then moving to L-Soft and using Listserv software
> that there can be some confusion about what email is
> coming from whom and how when one is subscribed to
> lists.  (In fact, when the list topped 1000 subscribers
> and 50+ posts a day, I changed the header to make the
> reply default "sender" rather than "list", which did
> help with list volume and confusion, but also squelched
> information sharing.)
>
>
> Holly
>
>
> -- 
> Holly Kruse
> Faculty of Communication
> University of Tulsa
> 600 S. College Ave.
> Tulsa, OK 74104
> 918-631-3845
> holly-kruse at utulsa.edu
>
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