Torsten Neuer (tneuer@inwise.de)
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:42:02 +0200
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>We've been seeing a LOT of these incorrectly formed unsubscribe requests
>lately. I'd like to hear some suggestions as to how the unsubscribe
>instructions could be stated more clearly! E.g.: Red Hat's mailing
>lists show an actual command line to use to send the request, but that
>only works if your e-mail system is Unix/Linux based and you have command
>line access. They end with:
>
> --
> To unsubscribe:
> mail -s unsubscribe redhat-announce-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
>
>For non-techie types, I don't think that's necessarily clearer. Ideas?
Maybe a special name for the virtual user who does the unsubscription?
That way any mail directed to that user causes the sender of the mail
to be unsubscribed from the list and the list will stay clean, i.e.:
<example>
-- To unsubscribe from the htdig3-dev mailing list, send a message to unsubscribe-htdig3-dev@htdig.org </example>However, since lot of people are used to putting the word "unsubscribe" either in the subject, the support for the old method should be kept up and running.
ciao, Torsten
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