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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: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 19:55:03 -0800
Kennedy wrote:
> 
> In article , L.J. Clark <ljclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Kennedy wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there really any reason why EVERY message on the digest has the
> >> subscription and de-subscription notice tagged to it?
> <snip>
> >Yep.  Almost as anoying as those little pithy says in our signature
> >files, or as anoying as folks who don't get rid of the two dashes
> >that Netscape sticks in.
> >
> Those two dashes (and a space) are added so that up to date software
> will automatically strip out the subsequent signature file from any
> reply.  The folks who don't get rid of them only exacerbate the problem!
> The single dash you have added in front of them on your signature, for
> example, prevents this from working and requires to be manually cut.
> :-(

Yawn.   ZZzzzzzzz.

> >
> >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?
> I have never seen it be a problem on other lists either.

Lists obviously populated only by the perfect.  Sigh.

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