Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:13:52 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo and Subscribing Message-ID: <19990526151351.C344@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990526135209.7645B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:55:54PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990526135209.7645B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:55:54PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > Thank you all for your many messages on how to subscribe. > > I am thinking of putting them all together and sending > all of them to all of you, as well as to the list. > > Some of them were so patronizing as to put off any > newuser, which I can no longer claim to be. I just made a > mistake. My apologies. > > In fact I was (am) already subscribed, but just had > procmail sending it all to /dev/null. > I've seen A LOT of emails sent to the lists saying just "subscribe", "subscribe questions", etc. I usually just delete them. Sometimes I send a short message saying "you should be sending this to majordomo instead of here". Sometimes it can be very annoying but I think it doesn't justify being rude. Fact is: people don't read the documentation and send their subscribe messages directly to the list. One of three things will happen: 1) Nobody answers them because we all delete the message. 2) Someone answers politely and we have a new happy subscriber. 3) Someone answers rudely and we lose a user. I've not used majordomo myself, but could it be possible to autogenerate a reply when the body (or header) of the message has just the subscribe command? regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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