The second possible cause that I am aware of is that there are some people
who can't distinguish between the Usenet and Email, and so rather than
issuing the appropriate command in his browser, he emailed you thinking that
that would unsubscribe him from the newsgroup.
pjk
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Vicki Richman wrote:
>I have a four-part FAQ on the National Writers Union. It is
>posted to alt.union.natl-writers.
>
>I just received a complaint from someone who received the
>last part of my FAQ as email, apparently with my address as
>the sender. He demanded that I remove his name from my
>"mailing list." I have no mailing list, and I never sent my
>FAQ to him or to anyone else who did not ask for it.
>
>Unfortunately, the complaint did not copy the complete set
>of headers on the offensive email. I have asked the
>complainant to send me every header, including every
>'Received: ' header. However, I doubt that complainant has
>saved the email, so that avenue may well be closed.
>
>I vaguely recall that Chris Lewis had a similar problem
>about a year ago.
>
>What's curious is that the complaint came five days after I
>posted my current FAQ, and that it is the only complaint I
>have ever received. That suggests an intentional forged
>mailing rather than failed Usenet-to-Email software.
>
>Vicki Richman
>vicric@panix.com
>
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