Date:	Tue, 17 May 94 14:17:38 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	A suggestion

A good suggestion which deserves consideration:

   I joined yet another mailing list this week. All messages from this list
   have a short note added explaining how to be removed.

   Would this be too difficult to achieve with the DJGPP list? 

   (Appologies for bringing up this subject again, but I don't remember
   anyone suggesting this in the past).

   -- 
   Paul Harness,                        |  Internet: gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk

I have suggested this myself at least once.  However, as the How to
Unsibscribe FAQ which DJ regularly posts says (paraphrased) nobody who
posts on the list can do anything about it.  The right place to make
the suggestion is "djgpp-request AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu" because that's
where the listserv maintainer lives.  Maybe if we all hammer on Russ a
bit he'll do something about it---or maybe he'll get po'd and kick us
all off the listserv.
    If you really want to see it done:

(1) ask Paul-Harness's-other-list-server-maintainer-request AT where DOT it DOT lives
    what software it uses and how that note is added.  (I would guess
    it's pretty trivial, you just add a header "X-How-to-Unsubscribe:"
    or whatever the  correct RFC-xxxx format is, but I'm no mail guru.)
(2) Politely pass the hint to djgpp-request.  Don't bet on anything
    happening; Clarkson is not exactly rolling in programming
    resources, as DJ's reply to the list said.

Of course, in theory, each of us could add an "X-How-to-Unsubscribe:"
header!  Does anyone know the correct format so that we don't add
something that confuses all the mailers in the world?  Or we could
add it to our .sigs ;-)

    --Steve

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