[4465] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: unsuscribe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason T. Luttgens)
Sun Feb 16 17:25:37 1997
From: "Jason T. Luttgens" <luttgenj@kic.or.jp>
To: Shin Katsumata <skat@flask.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 01:30:02 +0900
Reply-to: luttgenj@kic.or.jp
In-reply-to: <v03007801af2b3b40df8f@[205.243.69.77]>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 97 10:22 CST
> To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> From: Shin Katsumata <skat@flask.com>
> Subject: Re: unsuscribe
> >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 >>
>
> MkLinux listserv sent out a message I thought was a good idea. The message
> said something like "Please do not respond to this email message, unless
> you want to unsubscribe. " Reply-To field was set to
> unsubscribe@mklinux.apple.com. Their intent was to remove the invalid email
> address from the list.
>
Actually, even better, what they could do is send out a re-subscribe
message, and if you do not manually reply to it, then you would be
automatically unsubscribed.....kinda like what BUGTRAQ does.....
> May be the list owner can send out a short message like below once or every
> other month with Reply-To header set to Majordomo@ns2.rutgers.edu and this
> problem will go away (probably not, there are always some people who cannot
> read any message. Don't know how they were able to subscribe to the list in
> the first place. If you don't believe me, read the first Welcome message
> from Majordomo. It always tell people to SAVE the message.)
>
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> unsubscribe www-security
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> If you wish to unsubscribe this list, please reply to this message"
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> Shin Katsumata
> http://www.flask.com/ and http://photos.flask.com/
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