Tom writes:
> When I subscribed to list a few months ago, I received just such an e-mail.

And please excuse me if I have a limited amount of sympathy for someone
who managed to get *on* the list in the first place, yet can't be bothered
to try to figure out how to get off.

On lists which append a one-line "how to unsubscribe" trailer, I have
actually seen posts that look like:

> How do I unsubscribe from this list?
>
> [To unsubscribe from this list, see http://www.foo.com/lists/blahblah]

And of course many posts end up containing the trailer line two or three
times because people quote the damn thing.

Listserv already does a pretty good job, it seems, of intercepting
unsubscribe requests that get sent to the list.  Had the original poster
used the term "unsubscribe" instead of "get off", we probably wouldn't
have seen the post at all, as Listserv would have intercepted it and
replied directly to the poster with the instructions for unsubscribing.

So, personally, I don't see any reason to change anything.  Having to
deal with the occasional "How do I unsubscribe?" message, or the odd
spam that gets through, is just part of life on a mailing list.

G.