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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Rose)
Wed Feb 19 15:09:32 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:12:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
Reply-To: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
To: Anthony Cuykens <acuykens@ulb.ac.be>
Cc: dave <tel1dvw@ups.com>, "Leslie A. Sherman" <shermanl@RTK.NET>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <330AD3D7.1960@ulb.ac.be>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Mr. Owner, please read this message.
Anthony Cuykens wrote:
> Think about that: you will have no less stupid messages, the only
> difference is that they will all contains on of the key word (if th key
> word was security, this message is good but it doesn't speek of anything
> about security.)
Not to mention the countless times you'd undoubtedly reply to someone's
message and forget to incorporate the magic words into your message. I
don't understand why the list owner hasn't just unsubscribed everyone and
let us resubscribe on our own. It makes the most sense of any idea
heretofore proposed, it shouldn't be a big deal to implement, and it would
make a lot of people who can't spell "unsubscribe" very happy.
I think putting the web page address and the instructions for
unsubscribing in a trailer on each message is also a good idea -
preventative maintenance.
One last idea that would be nice is something I saw done on the
Solaris x86 list: they put a short identifier (in their case, "Sx86;") at
the beginning of every *subject* field that comes across the list. This
makes it easy to identify which messages are list stuff and which are
personal messages when looking at your mail. I propose "W3Sec;" for the
subject prefix.
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Jacob Rose All you and I must agree upon is peace.
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