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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

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