On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:22:47PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the > > former "mail a message with the subject "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" message? I'll grant you that > > people screwed that up too, but this seems to be asking for people to > > get confused. > > I'm with you. I think a larger subset of folks will screw this up. I'm sure > it's an attempt to save a bit of bandwidth, but . . .
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