[E-trademarks] seven listserv members at the USPTO are gone

[Carl Oppedahl]

Hello fellow listserv members.

Our listservs are hosted on a software platform called Mailman. When a 
listserv member posts a posting, Mailman sends the posting via email to 
each of the thousand or so listserv members.  The system keeps track of 
"bounces" and studies the bounce messages and tries to act accordingly.  
The system sends me reports sometimes.

Just now I received a report that today, seven people with "@uspto.gov" 
email addresses have been unsubscribed from the e-trademarks listserv.  
The reason given is "disabled email address".  I recognize some of the 
seven names as people (formerly) involved in trademark stuff at the 
USPTO, some of them very high up in the Trademark Office.  They are 
people I know slightly but not well enough to ask them what happened.

My suspicion is that most of them took the "fork in the road".