email is not browsing the net. a 'list' is email and a 'forum' is the net/web/
Get it? Got it? Good. Here is a chance to learn some terminolgy to make sure you don't seem so ingorant.
Jeez, I just don't know how to explain it. Everyone is so confused and blurs all the electronic data paths. After all, am I so geek? OK, I am. So be it.
Folks need to stop confusing 'forum' v. 'mailing list'!
It's quite simple.
A forum is in your web browser (aka a freakin website) and you may get alerts that someone spoke like christ to you but holyjesusonrollerblades, that does not equate to you getting it in your email. Get a grip. you got alerted via email after you subscribed (and I bet it said "you asked for this". Go to the website and reply, absorb or otherwise use that website to communicate.
If you signed up via email to a listserv, that is _not_ a freakin' forum. It is an email list. You signed up, Right? And they sent you an email back to confirm, you agreed. That is not a forum. Maybe you read in the email that you could go to a website to get off the email list via punching in your email and submitting but still, you are not in a forum. Hey silly, your email client tells you you can just reply? Read the freaking readme or the list charter. They usually have very simple instructions. If you can read, you should be able to understand the instructions of how to gett off the mailing list.
Stop confusing the two. Email is Email. The Web is the Web and the internet is the internet. the web is the internet and the internet is the web. But stop confusing it with an email discussion. I beg of you.
AhkGH!
Forum = internet/web
Mailing list = email _only_
BING! please don't confuse email with a 'forum' --- grrrrr
Posted by erik at October 26, 2003 04:44 PM | TrackBack