On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:9068] Re: time to divide -talk? (was: Please removeaccount from files)"
>     on 01/01/11, brian <brian / coolnamehere.com> writes:
> 
> |Hmm... what about appending the message id number to the end of the
> |message body when the post is processed by the mailing list program?  I
> 
> Could you explain it more concretely, preferably with examples?
> 
> 							matz.
> 

I can try - let's hope all of my brain cells are cooperating today.

Many mailing lists have subscribe/unsubscribe information in a footer at
the end of every message that is posted through the list.  The ruby-talk 
list management program might be configurable to create such a footer (I
have never used any of these programs, so I don't know how this would be
done).  The message id which is currently in the subject could be placed
within such a footer, producing something that looked vaguely like the
following:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ruby-talk:XXXX]
ruby-talk mailing list
To unsubscribe, send 
  "unsubscribe Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name" in the body of a message
  to the address <ruby-talk-ctl / netlab.co.jp">
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Or something like that.  I hope that made sense.  My coffee hasn't had
much effect on me today :)

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Brian Wisti
brian / coolnamehere.com
http://www.coolnamehere.com