RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......
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Once again the issue comes up. Here are the unsubscribe instructions from
a couple Debian mailing lists:
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
/dev/null
Tell me, which of these sets of instructions is more clear? Which is more
helpful to a newbie with limited Unix/Linux experience who's probably
never used shell redirection in his/her life? Am I really off in my claim
that the first of the two sets of instructions will be most helpful to
such a person?
Why is it that the devel, security, and probably many other Debian lists
have nice, clear instructions about unsubscribing, while the user list has
instructions that will only be helpful to somebody that understands that
they're looking at a command line that can be copied into a shell window?
noah
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> Just send an e-mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with the word
> "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the SUBJECT. Leave the body blank.
> That should do it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: john@dhh.gt.org [mailto:john@dhh.gt.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:16 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Please remove me from the subscription list......
>
>
> Pollywog writes:
> > Ummmm.... Just follow the instructions below, which appear at the bottom
> > of all posts.
>
> Just how do you propose that he do that, running Windows as he is?
> --
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
>
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