At 3:16 PM 10/26/95, Steven Weller wrote:

Well, the Welcome message says this:

Actually, not "the" Welcome message, but a particular instance of it, namely, the instance directed at the new subscriber (in this case, cypherpunks@toad.com was the new subscriber).

->If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, ->you can send mail to "Majordomo@toad.com" with the following command ->in the body of your email message: -> -> unsubscribe cypherpunks cypherpunks@toad.com

So it is but a small leap of logic to remove the 'un' in order to subscribe, since to my knowlege the Welcome message does not tell you how to subscribe. A human interface problem?

Except that the list would _have_ to have been subscribed to itself _before_ that particular Welcome message would have gone out. Sort of a binding issue. I would prefer the Welcome message to always say the command is: unsubscribe cypherpunks yournamehere and subscribe cypherpunks yournamehere But this is presumably a Majordomo feature. In any case, let's hope subscribing the list to itself is not a trend. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."