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1996-04-18 - Re: Cypherpunks Death Penalty for “take me of” messages?

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From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
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Message ID: <Pine.ULT.3.92.960418093925.9454A-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
Reply To: <199604181341.JAA08196@jekyll.piermont.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-18 21:18:17 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 05:18:17 +0800

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From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 05:18:17 +0800
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: Re: Cypherpunks Death Penalty for "take me of" messages?
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Eric Murray writes:
> >
> > I'd be willing to bet that a number of the 'unsubscrive' people
> > we have been seeing lately have been subscrived by their "friends"
> > and have never seen the "welcome to cypherpunks" list message,
>
> No. If you are subscribed against your will you DO see the "Welcome to
> Cypherpunks" message.

...which they disregard as unsolicited spam.

On my discussion lists, I put unsubscribe instructions in the message
X-Headers (which the clueless won't see, but which non-clueless targets
and their more clueful friends/administrators will); and on digests,
they're prepended.

-rich

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