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Re: Getting off this list


  • From: P3D George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Getting off this list
  • Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:49:16 -0800 (PST)

P3D Harry Poster wrote
> 
>    Why not put a SAMPLE unsubscribe in the heading or ending?
> 
>        To UNSUBSCRIBE please send a note EXACTLY as follows:
> 
>           TO: listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>           FROM: your address
>           SUBJECT:
>           BODY: unsubscribe photo-3d           
> 
>        [To SUBSCRIBE, change   BODY:  subscribe photo-3d]
> 
> Assuming that's it--sweet and simple, and someone who is finished with the
> list, and is frustrated, won't have to try to un-subscribe 10 times to get
> just the exact wording that the robots like!
>
Not quite so sweet; my first thought was "That can't be right, I don't
remember typing the word 'BODY' when I subscribed."

Seriously, the instructions are not as clear as they should be; it took
four or five attempts to get out of digest mode, and I am a software 
engineer by profession.
>    
>    PS--don't UNSUBSCRIBE me..........Harry Poster
> 
I don't think the robot knows what PS means to you, it may see it as
PostScript. If we don't hear from you in a week we'll send out the
St. Bernard's.
> 
> 


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