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Re: unsubscribe
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Greg Andrews wrote:
> It's a pain in the butt, but it's human nature. Might as well complain
> about the sky being blue.
An acquaintance of mine used to run the `mailing-list-bozos' mailings
list. He was a subscriber to many other mailing lists, and whenever
someone sent a subscribe or unsubscribe message to one of the lists he
was on, he would subscribe that person to the mailing-list-bozos list.
Every week, the mailing-list-bozos list got a message like this:
Hi! This is to remind you that you are on the
mailing-list-bozos mailing list. You are on this list because
you recently sent a `subscribe' or `unsubscribe' message to
the members of some other list you were on, instead of sending
it to the subscription request address for that list. As a
result, every person on that other list received a copy of
your request.
There is a standard, widely-published way to remove yourself
from almost any mailing list, that does not involve annoying
everyone by sending a copy of your request to every other
person on the list. To unsubscribe from the
mailing-list-bozos list, all you have to do is find out what
this method is, and use it.
Here are some sources you could check that would be likely to
have the instructions for unsubscribing from a mailing list:
[List of sources includes FAQs, web pages, etc.]
You will receive a copy of this message every week until you
unsubscribe.
Some people unsubscribed themselves right away. Some sent
`unsubscribe' requests to the list. Some sent profanity, abuse,
threats, etc. to the list, but they couldn't send them to my friend
for the same reason that they couldn't unsubscribe. Sometimes they
got into shouting and abuse matches with each other.
Some people did read the docs and wised up.
I've been thinking of reviving the mailing-list-bozos since I've been
on the qmail list.
mjd@xxxxxxxxx Mark-Jason Dominus
mjd@xxxxxxxxxx Plover Systems, Philadelphia, PA
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