I am trying not to nit-pick but I was going through my mailbox and I noticed
that one of the favorite subject line for unsubscribing to the list also
happpens to be
Subject: Please get me off the list
Subject: HELP how do i get off this damn list
...etc ...
Boy it is going to be difficult to filter that! (Assuming that we have enough
say/permission/authority to do things on the listserver end ... BTW are the
listowners even ON this list?)
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:58:53PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> One answer which should kill /most/ of the unsub requests is a procmail
> filter at the server which catches requests with unsubscribe in the title,
> zaps the posting and sends back instructions (or even sends the correct
> unsubscribe request to sympa). Obviously, it won't kill ALL requests but it
> should cut the number down with no human intervention. If all the "I want
> to be here" users agree to not use the "unsubscribe" word in their posts.,
> then we could extend the filter to catch that word /anywhere/ in the
> message.
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> Steve Flynn
> IBM MVS Operations Analyst
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> James Mellema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 24/02/2000 06:34:02
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> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
> Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe requests.
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> Jeanette Russo wrote:
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> > This has been suggested many times but MandrakeSoft has not taken action
> to
> > incorporate this feature.
> > Jeanette
> >
> snip
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> I belong to a couple of other lists that use the 'unsubscribe' appended
> to the end of each message and still have people trying to unsubscribe
> incorrectly. I think it all boils down to the concept that ignorant is
> repairable and stupid is for life.
>
> The person who finds the answer to this seemingly insurmountable problem
> will be doing a great service to humanity.
>
> --
> James Mellema, CRNA MA
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> Linux User # 71650
> ICQ # 19685870
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