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Re: [OM] Subscription notice on EVERY article - not a waste!

Subject: Re: [OM] Subscription notice on EVERY article - not a waste!
From: "L.J. Clark" <ljclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 21:52:40 -0800
Kennedy wrote:
> 
> Is there really any reason why EVERY message on the digest has the
> subscription and de-subscription notice tagged to it?  It is often
> needlessly quoted in replies and a recent digest contained primarily
> quotations of the subscription notice.  What a waste of bandwidth and
> general nuisance to all readers!
> 
> Can't the message be added as a header to the digest itself - along with
> the date and volume and number?
> 
> If it is needed - cant it just be smaller, a couple of lines perhaps?
> This is more annoying than the ASCII art sig's that newbies use!

> 
> --
> Kennedy
> Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
> A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
> Python Philosophers  (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

Yep.  Almost as anoying as those little pithy says in out signature
files, or as anoying as folks who don't get rid of the two dashes
that Netscape sticks in.

-- 
Larry Clark
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An example of too much time, and too much technology...
http://www.twodimes.org/home
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But seriously.  I'm on some other lists where folks are constantly
trying to unsubscribe via the list, and not the server.  Did you
ever notice how seldom this happens here?

Carry on Shawn!

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