The current sig is an executable shell command. If you want to unsubscribe, you can copy the text to a shell (X cut and paste, editor features, foo).
Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy. I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald than a less featureful sig. On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:20:57AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years > easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list. > Since more and more people from corel and storm distros are joining, > maybe a more decipherable sig could be written? Such as: > > > > send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > subject: unsubscribe > > rather than: > > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > John B > > > John Gould wrote: > > > > Nice one Oswald! > > > > Regards JohnG > > > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > _/ John Gould _/ > > _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ > > _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ > > _/ Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7BJ, England _/ > > _/ PGP - Public key available _/ > > _/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ > > _/ Tel: +44 1234 223002 Fax: +44 1234 223000 _/ > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > > > I want to unsubscribe and I don't know what I have to do. > > > > > > > holly [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > you get instructions in the signature of every single mail you receive > > > from this mailinglist! > > > > > > send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > reply to the CONFIRM message you will receive - done > > > > > > regards > > > > > > -- > > > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > > > -- > > > Zwei Dinge scheinen unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. > > > Beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher. > > > -- Albert Einstein > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/