Re: I want to leave this list

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:33:08AM -0500,
  Troy Frericks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Has anybody given an explanation as to why this simple change has not been
> implemented on this list.  Kinds of seems silly that it has not been done,
> especially given the extra messages not having it generates.

Because it doesn't help much. For a lot of lists, checking the subject
and body for things that appeared to be list requests and bouncing them
makes sense. For a technical list about email you want to be careful
about how you do that.

I wonder how many of these people subscribe by clicking on a mailto link
on some web page without understanding how the request is being made.
Getting rid of such links might make it a lot harder for people who
really don't want to be on this list to get on it.