Subject: Re: remove
To: Chris <smirks@weirdo.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/17/1998 08:50:13
Chris wrote:
> Every other list that I'm on appends a 2 or 3 line message at the bottom.
> This is the only one that doesn't do it (Or so I've seen)  =)
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
> 
> > BTW, fetchmail-friends mailing list appends to every message it sends
> > out a notice like this:
> > 
> > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
> > > fetchmail-friends-request@ccil.org . 
> > > Trouble?  e-mail to esr@ccil.org .
> > 
> > I think this can be useful for the NetBSD mailing lists as well,
> > perhaps without the third line.  It's not much of an overhead, is it?

Perhaps we should instead do something like many newsgroups (and a few
mailing lists) do:  send out a periodic message containing unsubscribe
instructions, mailing list etiquitte, and a pointer to useful info like
the FAQ.  Thoughts?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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