Subject: Re: How to unsubscribe To: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 12:52:01 EST From: Stephen Turnbull Sender: turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu Chris misses the point: > From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies) > Subject: How to unsubscribe > > >unsubscribe > >qit > >bye > >off > >can me > >erase me > >asta la vista > >adios > >so, bye! > >del > >unsubscribe me! > > Er, er. Not this way! > > Read this: and prints the listserv help file. What is annoying about the unsubscribers (besides the fact that they obviously have lives, so we're envious :-), is that they get mixed with the mailing list traffic. Most of them would get off fine if they sent their "unsubscribe" messages to LISTSERV AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu rather than DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu. Is it possible to add a "Send-Unsubscribe-Messages-To:" header line to all LISTSERV-distributed traffic? (Yes, I know, mucking with the listserv is someone else's job. Most OSU-based mailing lists have such headers. Often ignored. But many DJGPP unsubscribers do make a good-faith effort to figure out what's going on; we should give them a chance.) Or maybe those of us who are getting tired of seeing them and responding to them could put such a header in? I don't know how difficult the latter would be, and don't have time to figure it out this week. Or if such a header would get filtered by most mailers. -- Stephen Turnbull The Ohio State University, Department of Economics 410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210-1172 USA Phone: (614) 292-0654 Fax: ...-3906 Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu