From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 6: 5: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F4C37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA89138; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:04:58 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:04:58 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Jim Mock Cc: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: subscribe Message-ID: <20010312140458.A86452@irrelevant.org> References: <3AACD552.4E06C22@crosswinds.net> <20010312090213.G2706@guinness.osdn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010312090213.G2706@guinness.osdn.com>; from mij@osdn.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:02:14AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:02:14AM -0500, Jim Mock wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 at 08:55:30 -0500, Matt Schwartz wrote: > > Please, please, *PLEASE* read the how to subscribe section of the > handbook at > http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL. > > The amount of blank mails we get from people trying to subscribe to > mailing lists is becoming increasingly huge for no real reason > whatsoever. It's really not that difficult, especially when: > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Is at the bottom of every message to sent to every FreeBSD.org list. Yeah, but they don't see the mails yet as they're still trying to subscribe to the list, the best method would probably be to filter out any mails with subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message