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Re: New Package: libmng-1.6.0-1 (thank you)


On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO:
> >=================================
> >To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the
> >"List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message.  Send
> >email to the address specified there.  It will be in the format:
> >
> >cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com
>
> Thank you for including this, Gerrit.
>
> Would you mind including the additional text:
>
> >http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple
> >
> >Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available
> >starting at this URL.
>
> in future announcements?
>
> It seems like the VAST majority of people who have problems
> unsubscribing need to be pointed at a web page and, as strange as it
> sounds, need to be told to keep reading through all of the unsubscribe
> items.
>
> I don't know if this text in cygwin-announce has ever actually helped
> anyone but when I tell problem unsubscribers who claim they've "tried
> everything" that they need to keep reading the web page, I only very
> rarely ever hear from them again.
>
> cgf

I think this was voiced before, but can the above just be automatically
appended to every cygwin-announce message?
	Igor
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