Help people help themselves
Yikes! So how does one unsubscribe to this list? Not that I want to unsubscribe, but from the number of people that post their subscribe and unsubscribe messages directly to the listserver, I take it this is a problem? Or are they simply illiterate? Could somone please email me or post the proper method to unsubscribe and resubscribe? Thanks. -- --- O | HUBA LEIDENFROST -- <^- | leide871@snake.cs.uidaho.edu -- -\/\ | `No it's not an original--I stole it off the net!' --- \ | ADVICE AVAILABLE
I have a form letter, included below, which I send to people who ask the list at large to be removed. Unfortunately, I suspect that many of the people who wish to be removed have already stopped reading the list, so that messages which explain how to get removed are not read. Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cypherpunks list is for discussions on implementing cryptography. To mail to the whole list, send mail to cypherpunks@toad.com Every mail message sent to this address will be forwarded to everyone on the list. Make sure that the message you wish to send is appropriate for such a broad delivery. If you want to be added or removed from the cypherpunks list, or have any other questions which pertain to list management, send mail to cypherpunks-request@toad.com I don't manage the list from my regular account, so such mail which ends up in my ah.com account will just get you another copy of this file. Eric Hughes maintainer of the lists cypherpunks@toad.com and cypherpunks-announce@toad.com
Here is a form letter I send to people who send sub/unsub messages to mailing lists. This explains how to do it properly. -derek --------- Included Message Follows --------- Hi. Please do not send subscribe or unsubscribe messages to the list. That is what the -request list is for, so you can inform the maintainers of the list. When you send to large mailing lists with sub and unsub requests, you just increase the bandwidth used, and annoy a lot of people, since almost everyone on the list has absolutely no power with maintaining the list. Please remember that the Internet is not made up of listservs, and the Internet Approved method of sending requests is to send to listname-request. I suggest you read RFC's 1325 and 1396, as well as FYI 17 about mailing lists... Thank you for your time. -derek
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