On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Instructions on unsubscribing are at the end of each email - thanks here's a humbly-tendered suggestion that would reduce the irrelevant postings to red hat lists, and save everyone a lot of grief from the periodic flame wars. wouldn't it be just ducky if red hat were to put some front-end processing on their end to catch stuff like "unsubscribe" or "unsuscribe" subject lines, and simply auto-respond with a message to the effect that, "you are clearly trying to unsubscribe. here's how to do it...". so we don't have to see stuff like this anymore. and how about, "this is the red hat mailing list auto-responder. you have submitted a posting in HTML. HTML is strongly discouraged on red hat mailing lists. please resubmit your posting in plain text. here's how to do that, depending on your emailer ..." and continuing along this line, "your posting has been rejected by the red hat mail system because it: 1) has a blank subject 2) has a meaningless subject "HELP!!!" (that sort of thing) 3) etc, etc, etc. i can't imagine this would be all that difficult. is there any reason this can't be done? rday "this is the red hat mailing list auto-responder. our filtering software has detected that you have responded by top posting rather than bottom posting. your post has been rejected and, in addition, guido and lorenzo will be by to see you later today to slap some sense into you. have a nice day."
