RE: REMOVE!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lamb [mailto:morpheus@teleute.ml.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 4:14 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: REMOVE!!!
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
>
> >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably
> didn't have
> >to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute
> and all, but
> >isn't the whole point of the information being there to help
> inexperienced
> >users and minimize the number of "unsubscribe me" messages sent
> to the list?
> >To obfuscate this message strikes me as counterproductive.
>
> I see it a different way. Look at this way, the person was
> using Eudora,
> right? This is a Linux mailing list. Does the tag there work
> with Linux?
> Hell yeah, it works pretty much as a cut and paste. How much
> more simple do
> you want it to be? The fact this person was using Eudora is irrelevant
> since, last I checked, Eudora wasn't ported to Linux.
I'm sorry, but that's incredibly myopic. The person was subscribed to this
list. Helping subscribers with list administrivia certainly *is* relevant,
and is generally the entire point of taglines such as the one in question. I
don't see how the platform the subscriber is using is relevant. Windows,
Mac, or whatever users are going to make at least as much noise as Linux
users if they have difficulty unsubscribing from a list. If you think that
users of certain platforms aren't entitled to help with this procedure, then
I think you've totally missed the point of having the tagline there at all.
Braden
<http://www.endoframe.com>
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