Jauvane Cavalcante de Oliveira wrote:
> > I'm on several mailing lists, and subscribe/unsubscribe methods vary. I
> > can't remember how to get off any particular list.
>
> It is always wise to keep th esubscription message you received when you
> subscribed. Such message (which asks you to keep it) always explains how to
> unsubscribe...
>
> JVc.
My subscription reply does not contain an explicit explanation how to
unsubscribe.
Non-idiots can guess how to do it from the transcript of the original
subscription request that shows the receiver and subject. Or from the
information from the java-linux homepage that they used to subscribe.
imho the subscription reply should contain something like:
To unsubscribe this message list, send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to
java-linux-request@...
The reply does not ask me to keep it, but that does not help idiots either ;-)
Here is my subscription reply. imho not very verbose of how to unsubscribe:
> Subject:
> Re: subscribe
> Date:
> Tue, 6 Oct 1998 04:04:43 -0400
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> You have been added to the subscriber list of:
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> the following mail address:
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> By default, copies of your own submissions will be returned.
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> This is an automated subscription mechanism. For your verification, a
> transcript of the original subscription request is included below.
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> If the wrong address has been subscribed and you seem to be unable to fix it
> yourself, reply to this message now (quoting it entirely (for diagnostic
> purposes), and of course adding any comments you see fit).
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> >From: Martin Sorgatz
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Martin
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