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Subject: Re: Clueless subscribers?
From: Grant Neufeld <grant @ achilles . net>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 11:55:04 -0700
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199712031745.AA067801133@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
References: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 1997 16:11:31 GMT." <199712031611.claire.97120600@siberia.demon.co.uk>

At 10:45 AM -0700 1997/12/3, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>>the
>>variety of uns*bscribe mechanisms on difft lists really confuses folks,
>>so I'm setting up mechanisms to allow ppl to mail to
>>"listname-off@server" to uns*b.   People can understand that.
>
>Oh great.  There are too many different uns*b mechanisms out there and
>people are getting being confused by it, so your solution is to invent
>yet another one.  Yah, I follow that logic.  (not)

It's not a new method - I've seen it used successfully by a number of lists
(I'm on a few lists, one of which has been using it for more than a couple
years).

It is the simplest approach you can take with email based commands, and
probably the best for most end users.

--
"When all else fails, read the instructions."
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