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  From: <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:15:18 +0930 (CST)

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Kym Della-Torre <kym@connectsa.net> wrote:
> Surely it must be a doddle for a brave volunteer from the list to 
> compensate for the supidity of some by modifying the mailing list 
> server to unsubscribe people who send a blank message with the subject 
> unsubscribe to the linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au?

It's a good point.  You'd think that would be easy, wouldn't you?
I suspect there's a philosophical reason why that's a bad idea, but I
have no idea what that reason is.

Does anybody know why that shouldn't be done?

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