Chris Gray wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Erik Ryberg wrote: > > > > > > > > Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to > > > Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy. > > > I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald than a less featureful > > > sig. > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:20:57AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > > > I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years > > > > easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list. > > > > Since more and more people from corel and storm distros are joining, > > > > maybe a more decipherable sig could be written? > > > > If your objective is to keep debian only for former and current Unix users, > > then your > > proposal/attitude makes plenty of sense. If you wish to assist the spread > > and use of linux > > and debian and free(dom) software, then it doesn't. My own vote is to > > discard every element > > of geekish elitism immediately. That doesn't mean discarding the Unix way > > of doing things, > > it just means helping others get there more smoothly. > > > > I vote we keep the sig. It is geekish elitism, but when I first figured out > what the sig means, I was moderately proud of myself for about 10 minutes. > I had been seeing this thing at the bottom of each email for months and > finally its meaning clicked. > > It is geekish elitism. That has been what Debian has been about for > quite a while, and what drew me to it in the first place. I do want to keep > Debian for at least current Unix users. Linux might not quite be Unix in > some definitions, but it sure is close. I'm not saying that there should be > a test to be able to use Debian, or anything stupid like that. On the > contrary, I think we should keep things as easy as possible. But it should > also be the best. > > It's also the most elegant way to unsubscribe from the list. > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Chris Gray >
How about: To unsubscribe, enter "mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null" in an xterm.
