Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Randy Edwards <redwards@golgotha.net>]

rik M antropov wrote:
> 
> I want to be off all your mailing lists and forums.
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> 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.

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