List policy - should the "unsubscribe" info be changed?

Mark Rafn (markr@accoutrements.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:57:14 -0800 (PST)

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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 c689526@showme.missouri.edu wrote:
> please do not keep emailing me. I got onto your list by mistake

And there have been a whole lot of others who have been unable to figure
out that

> To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe axp-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null

means to type that command form a Unix shell prompt, or to send a mail
with the subject "unsubscribe" to axp-list-request@redhat.com.

Is it likely to reduce the problem if the message were changed to

To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with
'unsubscribe' as the subject. Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com

It's twice as many lines, but perhaps clearer to people who don't realize
that there is such a thing as a command line MUA.

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