[plug] Dealing with Unsubscribe problems

[Bret Busby]

Christian wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For those of you who don't read the Debian weekly news, check out the
> latest edition and, in particular, how they dealt with someone who
> somehow was subscribed to debian-security and refused to unsubscribe
> himself. At the same time he continually sent abusive messages to the
> mailing list because he kept getting all this "spam" which were, of
> course, just list messages.
> 
> The solution is quite ingenious and I propose we bear it in mind the
> next time we get a luser who can't unsubscribe:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2001/debian-security-200109/msg00072.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian.
> 
> 

Quite agree.

One question (relating to the signature in the email on that page, and, 
to Brad's signature); why is the "campaign" to have email sent in plain 
ASCII text format, named the ASCII Ribbon Campaign?

I don't understand the significance of the usage of the word "Ribbon".

Bret Busby
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