Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:50:21 -0800 From: "Michael Bryan" <fbsd-security@ursine.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199903261450210680.4231D295@quaggy.ursine.com> In-Reply-To: <199903261817.KAA23685@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> References: <199903261817.KAA23685@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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On 3/26/99 at 10:17 AM Jim Shankland wrote: >Actually, the trick is that when sending an "unsubscribe" message >to the entire list, it is essential to send it as a multi-part >MIME message with a copy in HTML. Otherwise, the message is >so small that some of the hundreds or thousands of readers of the >list mistakenly think it is insignificant. Oh, no, I don't think that's adequate either. One should also include a 1.3 MByte JPEG (minimal compression, of course) with the phrase "unsubscribe freebsd-security" spelled out in large multi-colored 3D letters. Sending multiple copies is a good idea, as well. (A fact which the mailing list software seems to be randomly promoting on its own these days, just in case somebody forgets this...) ;-) Michael Bryan fbsd-security@ursine.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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