Subject: Re: unsubscribe

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:23:59 -0800

Yo"
To: [email-masked] (Jeff Lewis), [email-masked]
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

I propose that people who send mail to moo-cows instead of
moo-cows-requset be forced to remain on the list until they figure
moo-cows-request.

Not to pick on you, Jeff, but, well, I see this so often in this group
it's kinda silly.  Someone posts to be removed, and someone follows up to
use moo-cows-request.  Then, before you know it, it happens again.  And
again.  And again.  And again.  Does anyone get the picture?

-- void *(*(*schlake())[])(void *);

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From: William J Rehm <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 05:27:59 -0800

> again.  And again.  And again.  Does anyone get the picture?

So you think the folowing scenario is an improvement?

Someone posts to be removed. Then, before you know it, it happens again.
And again. And again. What's wrong with this picture? :)

Later,
Bill
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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 09:23:34 -0800

I have a reminder message that I send in private mail to nearly all
people who incorrectly post to the mailing list asking to be removed.
(Not just moo-cows, every mailing list I'm on.)  Sometimes I get
flamed, but usually I get thanked, because they really *don't*
understand what they're doing, and my message helps them to figure it
out.  I've been developing this form letter for some years, adapting
it to new net conventions and deeper levels of cluelessness.  FYI:

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To subscribe or unsubscribe from an internet mailing list, you should
never send mail to the list itself.  There are two main conventions
for subscription handling.  The first is to simply append "-request"
to any mailing list name.  As example, if you were trying to
communicate to the maintainer of the list [email-masked], you would send
mail to [email-masked] instead.  The second is to interact with a
LISTSERV server.  For that, you would send mail to the user listserv
at the site with the list.  For our example above, we would send mail
to [email-masked].  Listserv is a program, rather than a person as
the -request addresses typically are, and has specific command sets.
With our example above, usually, SUBSCRIBE FOO will do the trick.

Please remember this tidbit for future mailing lists with which you
may interact.  Don't send to the list, only send to the appropriate
address.

Judy Anderson yclept yduJ  [email-masked]  'yduJ' rhymes with 'fudge'
       Join the League for Programming Freedom, [email-masked]