[42357] in Cypherpunks
Re: Welcome to cypherpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Weller)
Thu Oct 26 10:20:58 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 07:16:06 -0800
To: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
From: stevenw@best.com (Steven Weller)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
>> Why am I getting this when I am already subscribed to the
>>list??????
>
>Because someone signed the list up to the list...probably inadvertently.
>They probably sent something to majordomo with a line like:
>
>subscribe cypherpunks cypherpunks@toad.com
>
>thinking it actually made sense for some reason...then again they might
>have done it on purpose.
Well, the Welcome message says this:
->If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list,
->you can send mail to "Majordomo@toad.com" with the following command
->in the body of your email message:
->
-> unsubscribe cypherpunks cypherpunks@toad.com
So it is but a small leap of logic to remove the 'un' in order to
subscribe, since to my knowlege the Welcome message does not tell you how
to subscribe. A human interface problem?
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