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Re: ADMIN: suggestion



On Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:02:41 -0500, you wrote:

>Given the recent spate of pranks involving people being signed up for 
>mailing lists against their will (Rush Limbaugh and Emmanuel 
>Goldstein were both victims with the result being 300+ messages an 
>hour) I think we should steal a good idea another list I'm one uses 
>Namely adding to the header:
>
>X-Comment:  TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email "unsub poly" to listserv@lupine.org
>
>Obviously we should tailor it to let people know how to unsub from 
>OUR list, but you get the idea. If you're not familiar with the way 
>SMTP handles headers, you don't see this unless you make a specific 
>effort to do so - it's not displayed normally.
>
>While many people won't think to look there, it makes sure the 
>information is available to those in the know.
>
>Just a suggestion.
>=========================================================================
>Don Whiteside, professional computer jockey. Kids, don't try this at home
>Penis ownership is not a prerequisite to technological competence." - Me
>=========================================================================
>

There was a problem with the listserver for the ibm-java lists so they now
have the list server append the following to every message posted to the
list 

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To unsubscribe from this mailing list ( ibm-java-os2 ), please send a note
to
majordomo@hursley.ibm.com
with the following message in the body of the note
unsubscribe ibm-java-os2 <e-mail address>

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This is quite painless since they do it automatically and it is impossible
to miss since it is an extra sig and not in the header.  
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