From: stevenw@best.com (Steven Weller)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 01:23:03 +0800
To: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
Subject: Re: Welcome to cypherpunks
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>>      Why am I getting this when I am already subscribed to the
>>list??????
>
>Because someone signed the list up to the list...probably inadvertently.
>They probably sent something to majordomo with a line like:
>
>subscribe cypherpunks cypherpunks@toad.com
>
>thinking it actually made sense for some reason...then again they might
>have done it on purpose.

Well, the Welcome message says this:

->If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list,
->you can send mail to "Majordomo@toad.com" with the following command
->in the body of your email message:
->
->    unsubscribe cypherpunks cypherpunks@toad.com

So it is but a small leap of logic to remove the 'un' in order to
subscribe, since to my knowlege the Welcome message does not tell you how
to subscribe. A human interface problem?


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