> The confirmations are coming from Pegasus mailers. The option to turn off
> acknowledgement is an 'extended' menu feature of Pegasus. That menu needs
> to be activated by the site administrator. You can hardly fault people
> for not turning off acknowledgements when there may appear to be no
> capacity to do so.
This is *nonsense*. People who have defective mailers (and I don't
care what *you* call it, a mailer with this function is defective)
have the option of simply cancelling their subscriptions rather than
spewing garbage out to the rest of the world. Nothing irritates me
more than having to put up with someone's rudeness because "the
computer made me do it." People should not get away with crap and
blame it on the electronic bogeyman, least of all librarians.
And another thing; why is it that when I say something
curmudgeonly over the net I get a chorus of private "amens" and
"kudos" and the people who complain that I am being insufficiently
sensitive to others' incapacities always respond to the group?
--Chuck Ten Brink
D'Angelo Law Library "The dogmas of the quiet past are
cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu inadequate to the stormy present. . .
uclcjt1@uchimvs1 We must disenthrall ourselves. . ."
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