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Subject: Re: ok, look folks
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:08:12 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <21075.844855496@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 9, 96 03:04:56 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>
>> True enough, but sometimes people don't *know* what they
>> subscribed as.  Not everyone is all that knowledgable about
>> mail systems, or in control of the mail system they're using.
>
> No problem.
>
> 1. Send email to majordomo@freebsd.org saying "help".
> 2. It sends you back a list of commands.
> 3. You notice that one of those commands allows you to receive a copy
>    of all the users on a list.
> 4. You figure out which one you are and you send the deletion request.
>
> I'm sorry, but this is an open and shut case of someone who found it
> easier to yell and scream than do his homework.

Well, I think I'm not completely stupid, and I've done some thinking
about this problem, but this was the first indication I had that
majordomo would give you a list of the subscribers, or that that is a
possible way to get yourself off the list.  To judge by the other
messages on the list, I'm not alone, so you can't call it an open and
shut case.  But the idea's good, and I'll add it to the weekly message
I sent to -questions.

> Not the best of first impressions, and certainly one which will
> stick with me for awhile.

Never seen anybody flame before?  To be fair to whoever the original
flamer was (are you really going to carry his name around with you?),
after the nth time, you can get really upset.  It wasn't nice of him
to carry on flaming once people had helped him, though.

Greg