Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Christopher Faylor Message-ID: <19990211110304.A3574@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:03:04 -0500 To: Cygwin Forum Subject: Re: unsubscribe (OFF TOPIC) References: <000001be5066$3b093ce0$7f80a8c0@DEV9503.scicom.com> <3.0.3.32.19990204151830.00962460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <199902102213.OAA18098@deimos.nc.com> <19990211090950.B25305@cygnus.com> <36C2FB9D.519A1D88@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <36C2FB9D.519A1D88@ece.gatech.edu>; from Charles Wilson on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 10:47:42AM -0500 I have moved this discussion offline. I would appreciate it if people would please let this thread die. cgf On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 10:47:42AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Although I agree with your sentiment, Chris, I think you picked the wrong target. >I did not find Simon's post to be a bad-humored rant at all. (Off-topic - well, >probably so, yes) Truthfully, I thought he expressed a good idea - and rather >than whining about some problem, he proposed a solution. That's what the >open-source community is all about, right? > >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Actually, you have seen very few unsubscribe messages in the last few >> years because the previous mailing list software was set up to do pretty >> much what you describe. >> >> As should be painfully obvious, we are still in the process of tweaking >> the new mailing list software. We didn't get everything exactly right >> in our first attempt. >> >> Also, you're responding to a thread that died out almost a week ago. >> >> Personally, I find these little bad-humored, off-topic rants much more >> distracting than the occasional 'unsubscribe' message. >> >> YMMV. >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 02:23:38PM -0800, Simon Quellen Field wrote: >> >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@sourceware.cygnus.com. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com