This is related to the thread on whether or not to retain law-lib as an
open/public list that non-subscribers can post to.
Every once in a while, there's a post from a law-lib subscriber who hasn't
received e-mail from law-lib in a while and wonders if they have been
unsubscribed. I am not sure what is causing people to get unsubscribed from
law-lib (it may be that there are so many subscribers to law-lib that the
listproc software every once in a while cannot handle it and has to
take off a few?). Anyway, until that problem is resolved, subscribers
who have been bounced from law-lib will either have to query the
listproc software at listproc@ucdavis.edu to see if they are
subscribed, assume they are unsubscribed and resubscribe via listproc,
or, as some do, post to law-lib@ucdavis.edu to find out what's up.
Because non-subscribers can post to law-lib, we get their messages and can
send them help.
It would be nice though if the listproc would send a message to the people
that have been taken off telling them so, or if perhaps law-lib was set up so
that postings with key words such as subscribe or unsubscribe or hinting that
someone has been bounced off of law-lib would immediately get sent to the
administrator of law-lib (or preferably to the listproc software to ease the
list management burdens) so that the bounced subscriber can get instructions
on how to resubscribe (or subscribe for the first time) from listproc
or the list administrator, and the requests would not be forwarded to
the law-lib list.
A message from the listproc software can facilitate efforts of bounced
subscribers to resubscribe.
BTW, I've been thinking about the watercooler analogy - with 2000 or so
people worldwide on law-lib who are librarians, students, lawyers, publishers,
professors, etc. who are interested in issues and topics related to law
libraries, this is a huge public gathering around that watercooler...:-)
And very wonderful. I have been reading in awe the ongoing creative stories
of Conan's problems with legal publications and publishers. What poetry!
Thanks!
Lyo.
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