Re: Help

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

The current sig is an executable shell command.  If you want to
unsubscribe, you can copy the text to a shell (X cut and paste, editor
features, foo).

Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to
Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy.
I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald than a less featureful
sig.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:20:57AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years
> easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list. 
> Since more and more people from corel and storm distros are joining,
> maybe a more decipherable sig could be written?  Such as:
> 
> > > send mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> > > subject: unsubscribe
> 
> rather than:
> 
>  > > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe
> debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
> 
> John B
>  
> 
> John Gould wrote:
> > 
> > Nice one Oswald!
> > 
> > Regards JohnG
> > 
> > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
> > _/  John Gould                                      _/
> > _/  Senior Systems Support Engineer                 _/
> > _/  Power Innovations Limited                       _/
> > _/  Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7BJ, England         _/
> > _/  PGP - Public key available                      _/
> > _/  email: johng@powinv.com, john.gould@powinv.com  _/
> > _/  Tel:   +44 1234 223002  Fax: +44 1234 223000    _/
> > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
> > 
> > On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > 
> > > > I want to unsubscribe and I don't know what I have to do.
> > > >
> > > holly #\*$@~!
> > > you get instructions in the signature of every single mail you receive
> > > from this mailinglist!
> > >
> > > send mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> > > subject: unsubscribe
> > >
> > > reply to the CONFIRM message you will receive - done
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
> > > --
> > > Zwei Dinge scheinen unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit.
> > > Beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher.
> > >                                     -- Albert Einstein
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > --
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> 
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