Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:59:36 +0200
From: Ronald de Man <deman AT win DOT tue DOT nl>
To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Optimization question
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On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 08:22:40PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Dr H. T. Leung wrote:
> > If you had read the mailing list archive, it is terribly unfair to people
> > on the list to cc you replies when you are not on the list. If you want to
> > ask a question, subscribe, read on for a while, then post (then maybe
> > unsubscribe). 
> 
> Well, the official policy is to state that you are not on the the list
> and just post your question. I don't think his particular posting was too
> annoying, do you?

But it generated a whole lot of replies on the list, and the original
poster would have missed most of it.

Changing this official policy and making posts with a subject/body
of 'unsubscribe' help those poor souls get off this list would have
my vote.... :)

Ronald