[42366] in Cypherpunks
Re: Welcome to cypherpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Thu Oct 26 12:25:40 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:09:32 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
At 3:16 PM 10/26/95, Steven Weller wrote:
>Well, the Welcome message says this:
Actually, not "the" Welcome message, but a particular instance of it,
namely, the instance directed at the new subscriber (in this case,
cypherpunks@toad.com was the new subscriber).
>->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?
Except that the list would _have_ to have been subscribed to itself
_before_ that particular Welcome message would have gone out.
Sort of a binding issue. I would prefer the Welcome message to always say
the command is:
unsubscribe cypherpunks yournamehere
and
subscribe cypherpunks yournamehere
But this is presumably a Majordomo feature. In any case, let's hope
subscribing the list to itself is not a trend.
--Tim May
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