>You only had *one?* I have had several with my Usenet FAQ. There are two
>causes that I am aware of: This person subscribed to a mailing list relating
>to the subject area. He saw your email address in the Usenet From: line, and
>came to you to get him off the list, rather than the list maintainer.
>
I must add to this that my FAQ for sci.bio.food-science has been placed on
several mailing lists without my knowing, and I was often mistaken for the
list maintainer.
>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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