Re: unsubscribe
It's a means of collecting email addresses, like the joke of the day subscriptions with reply addresses that don't go to the joke of the day site they pretend to be from. The expectation is that people will reply with information on how to unsubscribe, thereby validating their emial addresses... just like you do if you try to unsubscribe from the mailing list that you never subscribed to in the first place. -- Terry Jorge Severino Diaz wrote: unsubscribe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: unsubscribe
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 19:48, Terry Lambert wrote: It's a means of collecting email addresses, like the joke of the day subscriptions with reply addresses that don't go to the joke of the day site they pretend to be from. The expectation is that people will reply with information on how to unsubscribe, thereby validating their emial addresses... just like you do if you try to unsubscribe from the mailing list that you never subscribed to in the first place. Why not catch (un)subscribe's to mailing lists? That wouldn't only stop people fishing for addresses, but also newbies and distracted people... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: unsubscribe
Wouter Van Hemel wrote: Why not catch (un)subscribe's to mailing lists? That wouldn't only stop people fishing for addresses, but also newbies and distracted people... It's too compute intensive for high traffic lists, and it occasionally makse mistakes. For example, we would both have to resubscribe because of the subject line. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: unsubscribe
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:48:26PM -0500, Ed Gold wrote: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message This would work better if you actually read the mails you're receiving, and send the update request to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list :) G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: unsubscribe freebsd-hackers
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:43:00PM +0300, Dmitry Dicky wrote: unsubscribe freebsd-hackers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message This would work better if you actually read the mails you are receiving, and send the request to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list itself :) G'luck, Peter -- If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wouldn't be false. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE
Chris Costello wrote: On Saturday, August 26, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [2,640 lines removed] ... and this was at the bottom of the message you quoted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message At the very least, don't just mail a whole day's worth of data back to the list with "UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE" affixed to the subject line. Don't you know how much bandwidth and money you're wasting for people who have to pay for the amount of data they download? I'm sending this to the list because hopefully someone else reading it and wanting to unsubscribe won't make the same mistake. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message But it's fun!!! IT's like some magic chamy ---Have aafun Send Steve (who goes back to mainly lurking!!!:) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE
On Saturday, August 26, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [2,640 lines removed] ... and this was at the bottom of the message you quoted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message At the very least, don't just mail a whole day's worth of data back to the list with "UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE" affixed to the subject line. Don't you know how much bandwidth and money you're wasting for people who have to pay for the amount of data they download? I'm sending this to the list because hopefully someone else reading it and wanting to unsubscribe won't make the same mistake. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: unsubscribe
you were subscribed to only one list "freebsd-hackers-digest". i have removed you from that list. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Unsubscribe
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, kylee wrote: Unsubscribe No. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Unsubscribe
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, kylee wrote: Unsubscribe No. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
