In message  <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

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> All in all, it was a lot less painless than I thought it would be...really fun
> actually. We did discuss the confirmation thing and Jack does understand our
> frustration with this. They are going to work on coming up with some kind of
> solution. The biggest reason the list is the way it is is because of
> "Spam"...and by running the list the way they do, IS pretty effective to
> combat that stuff.

Steve, I wonder if Jack and Hugo can tell us have many messages (quantity and
percentage) are sent to TechNet _without_ confirmation i.e. spam, or people who
do not understand the system? We would get a feel for the scale of the problem
then.

Peter

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