From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 14:16:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (unknown [209.198.197.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49DE14DD3; Wed, 26 May 1999 14:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00754; Wed, 26 May 1999 15:13:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:13:52 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Annelise Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo and Subscribing Message-ID: <19990526151351.C344@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Annelise Anderson on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:55:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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