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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:23:38 -0800
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
From: Simon Quellen Field <sfield AT nc DOT com>
Subject: RE: unsubscribe
Cc: "H. Sawyer Gillespie" <hgillesp AT u DOT washington DOT edu>,
Cygwin Forum <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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How many times over the past few years have we seen 'unsubscribe'
messages?  When that many people can't figure out how to do common
operations with a piece of software, maybe it's time to blame the
software instead of the people.

How difficult can it be to write a list server that looks at the mail it is
about to send, checking for content that has nothing but the word
'unsubscribe' in it?  Certainly once it has found such a piece of mail,
it is not brain surgery to decide not to mail it out to the list, but
instead to simply honor the request.

Maybe the problem is that the list server was designed to make
Multi-Level Marketing easy, (hence the name 'ezmlm'), and people
who cater to spammers have a different outlook than a bunch of
programmers who donate their time to providing free software to
the world.

Maybe the next free software project should be a smarter list server.




At 03:18 PM 2/4/99 -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 11:59 AM 2/4/99 -0800, H. Sawyer Gillespie wrote:
>>unsubscribe
>>
>
>Can people PLEASE stop sending their requests for unsubscribing to the list?
>The proper way to unsubscribe from the list is to send mail to the LIST 
>SERVER address, NOT the list address itself.  If you don't know what the
>address is that you should send to, check the Cygnus web site.  It clearly
>states the address and the process.  See:
>
>   http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/lists.html
>
>For example, people looking to get off the cygwin list should send mail to
>cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com.
>
>TIA,
>
>
>Larry Hall                             lhall AT rfk DOT com
>RFK Partners, Inc.                     (781) 239-1053
>8 Grove Street                         (781) 239-1655
>Wellesley, MA, 02482-7797              http://www.rfk.com
> 


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