Re: Trying to subscribe to Sitefinder list

["Brian Bruns" <bruns () 2mbit com>]

I got on OK, but I used the web based confirmation method.

Maybe their mail server got flooded?
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Brian Bruns
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () gettcomm com>
To: <nanog () merit org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:41 AM
Subject: Trying to subscribe to Sitefinder list


> Well, I've been trying. I got a double opt-in that gave me a deadline 
> to respond of 5AM Wednesday. I replied.
>
> No confirmation.
>
> Tried to post (crossposted to NANOG).
>
> Got error message telling me I was not yet on the list.  Of course, 
> with the apparent assumption the Internet is the Web, the first 
> directions were to use a browser. Another option was to respond with 
> a token in the message, a common enough procedure for mailing lists.
>
> I didn't read the fine print well enough.  The first time, I 
> discovered that the token had "confirm no" in it.  Removed "no".
>
> Reread instructions.  Just removing wasn't enough. Had to edit it to 
> "confirm yes".
>
> Is there something wrong with the user friendliness of this picture, 
> assuming that people actually use something other than a web browser, 
> shocking as that might be for a m-a-i-l-i-n-g  l-i-s-t?
>
> grrrr.