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RE: REMOVE!!!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Beattie [mailto:mickyb@es.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 6:27 AM
> To: john@dhh.gt.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: REMOVE!!!
>
>
> On 16 Sep 1998 john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
>
> > Will Lowe writes:
> > > You didn't send this to the right place.  All the bottom of
> every message
> > > you received was:
> >
> > > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe
> debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
> > > /dev/null>
> >
> > Which is utterly useless to someone running Eudora under Windows, as she
> > is.
>
> "Geekspeak" as to say.
>
> > > You need to send a message to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> > > with "unsubscribe"  in the subject.
> >
> > Which is what should be at the bottom of every message.
>
> Agreed.

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.

Braden

<http://www.endoframe.com>


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