[4463] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Clearly a creative spelling that needs be added to trap Re: unsuscribe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Lim Chee Wee)
Sun Feb 16 10:15:25 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:39:34 +0800
From: Henry Lim Chee Wee <cwlim@ncs.com.sg>
Reply-To: cwlim@ncs.com.sg
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
phoenix@clark.net wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, David W. Morris wrote:
>
> >
> > Wow ... a lot of people recently who can't spell u.n.s.u.b.s.c.r.i.b.e
> > ;-:). Since it seems we now have an u.s.u.b.s.c.r.i.b.e trap on the list
> > perhaps this creative spelling could be added?
>
> Hindsight is always 20-20, but how much less noise would there be on
> mailing lists if instead of unsubscribe, the command to leave the mailing
> list was "quit" or "bye"? It has far fewer letters, and is probably a
> more common word for our english-as-a-second-language subscribers.
>
> Jim
>
> << RFP out for new .sig >>
maybe what we need is to reprogramme majordomo to load as many
variants of 'unsusribe','unsuscribe','unsus','get me off this
mailing list!', 'pls get me off!' etc etc etc......, maybe we
really should come up with one webpage, with the BIG letters
"UNSUBSCRIBE" printed there, and allow a textbox to just key
in their email address. While we are at it, we could really
reprogrammed majordomo to mail-bomb those with regular mis-spells
of the word, and send them templates ( instead of instructions )
on unsubscribing ( fill in the blanks, how nice ), yeah, say
in the ten thousands range?
-Henry-
" Not another IAMS(I Am a Moron Syndrome)!" - Grey
