> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jeff Schreiber wrote: > > > >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 . . . > > > > Personally I think it's cool. > > i agree. just cut and paste the line into an xterm window or console. > what could be simpler? > > i think that it would be better like this, though: > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > it's simpler and easier to read (pipes don't confuse newbies anywhere near > as much as < redirection of stdin). also serves as an example to teach > newbies something about pipes and the Unix Way Of Doing Things. :-) As was mentioned here before, I think that there is still a problem with the Reply-To field. That is, some systems (like mine) has to had a Reply-To field because otherwise their name can not be recognized, and their unsubscribe request can't be processed.
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