Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:55:51PM -0500
In reply to:Randy Edwards
Quoting Randy Edwards(redwards@golgotha.net):
> rik M antropov wrote:
> >
> > I want to be off all your mailing lists and forums.
> > --
> > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
>
> If the list mantainer is watching, could I make a suggestion? The
> above sig takes two lines. Since people not understanding how to
> unsubscribe would typically be novices, could we use those two lines fully
> and make it a bit easier on them?
>
> I've seen similar types of messages before, and the way the above is
> phrased is rather cryptic, and of course the mail command wouldn't work on
> a Windows system. How about instead making the sig something like:
>
> If you want to unsubscribe, E-Mail "debian-user-request@lists.debian.org"
> with a subject line of "unsubscribe".
>
> Or something similar. There's only a few bytes difference, but it
> would be far easier for a newbie to understand and would probably result
> in far fewer off-topic messages like we see from rik above. FWIW.
Don't think the list maintainer reads the list! :-(
He has been asked to change this for at least 2 years, IIRC.
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