im am somewhat new on this message group (~1 month) and i dont think such a footer would be neccesary. when i subscribed to this list i was able to print out instructions on how to unsubscribe. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu> Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 7:54 PM Subject: Re: (ADMIN) Suggestion >On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Camille Scaysbrook wrote: > >> of mine subscribes to another listserver, on which *all* the messages >> received are posted with a footer giving instructions on how to unsubscribe >> from the list at any time. Do you think this would be a good - or possible > >We used to have such a trailer attatched to all messages. To be entirely >honest (sorry, Stephen), it was ugly, and after a while, it began to make >some of us nervous. I would twitch a lot while reading mail and I didn't >sleep well on weeknights. Will had to get corrective lenses. I don't >remember when it finally disappeared, but I recall the electronic >equivalent of a rainbow stretching across the list for a week or so. > >The better way to handle would-be unsubscribers is for Tim to hire a >couple of guys to rough people up a little when they discard their list >membership reference card. > >-------------------------------------------- >Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu