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Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:53:57 -0400
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At 13:23 9/17/98 EDT, John Roraback PhD said:
|In a message dated 98-09-16 16:10:33 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes:
|
|> Another excerpt from the forthcoming 1.8d Release Notes:
|>
|>  ***********************************************************
|>  * Support for listname-subscribe-request, etc., mailboxes *
|>  ***********************************************************
|>
|>  Version 1.8d now supports the following generic -request mailboxes for
|lists:
|>
|>  listname-subscribe-request@...
|>  listname-signoff-request@...
|>  listname-unsubscribe-request@...
|>
|>  (where "listname" is the name of the list in question). Mail sent to these
|>  addresses will be interpreted as explicit SUBSCRIBE, SIGNOFF, or
|UNSUBSCRIBE
|>  commands, respectively, for the list in question, regardless of the text
|>  contained in the body of the mail message (which will simply be
discarded).
|
|
|Given the poor spelling skills, or propensity to make typographical
errors, of

Most of these constructs are probably going to be used by
point-and-shoot(myself-in-foot) types.  The actual spelling won't matter.
 Hopefully the instructions surrounding the clickable area will be sufficient.

As it is, many modern day mail programs support clickable email
constructs (even though they might not be formally adopted) e.g.,

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