From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: unsubscribe djgpp
Date: 5 Nov 1997 08:34:56 GMT
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Leath Muller (leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au) writes:
>> Why do people persist in posting these here instead of sending them to the
>> list-manager software mail alias?
>
>Actually, it probably wouldn't be such a bad thing if the emails sent out
>to the members of the mailing list automatically attached a 2 line signature
>saying how to unsubscribe from the list...

So this comes from people that aren't aware there's a separate address for
sending commands?
Yeah the fractint list does that actually, and I don't see any unsubscribe
crap in it. Good plan.

>And to answer your question, not everybody knows how list-server's work...
>I can handle the occasional newbie doing so simply because they have to
>learn somehow, and people learn from their mistakes...

Of course. But some things bear putting in documentation.

>Leathal.

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh