Re: I am getting angry at debian mailing list.

From: Hal Vaughan (hal_at_thresholddigital.com)
Date: 08/03/05

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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:00:02 -0400

    On Tuesday 02 August 2005 09:32 pm, John Hasler wrote:
    > Paul Johnson writes:
    > > I'm really not sure how to dumb it down any further than the extremely
    > > simple, clear six-year-old-can-do-it instructions at the foot of every
    > > message, including this one.
    >
    > While unsubscription problems are usually PEBKAC, it is a well-known fact
    > that the instructions sometimes fail.
    >
    > BTW, the footer is not present at the foot of your message as displayed by
    > Gnus, though it is present in the file. Looks like Gnus hides the footer
    > when there's a signature.

    I had the same experience with KMail. I saw the message, with the normal
    border and frame KMail gives signed messages, but the unsubscribe message
    didn't show. I laughed at the irony and was thinking of responding, but
    didn't when I checked the e-mail source and saw it was KMail's gaff.

    Hal 

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