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S. Kunselman writes:

> I don't know about everyone else who reads
> S-NEWS for learning purposes, but I'm 
> getting a little tired of deleting "unsubscribe"
> messages from my mail.  Isn't there another
> way people can be "disconnected" without the
> rest of us having to read about it??

It seems to me that people are doing this innocently because they do
not know the correct protocol. From the FAQ (available by `send FAQ
from S' from statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu):

1)   How do I subscribe to/unsubscribe from  this mailing list?
 
     Requests to be added or dropped from the S-news list should
     be sent to s-news-request@utstat.toronto.edu.
 
     Please DO NOT send mail to s-news@utstat.toronto.edu since any mail
     sent to this address is automatically forwarded to hundreds of
     other users.
 
     Your local site may have many subscribers to S-news.  In that
     case, it may have a local mailing list, so that a single message
     from utstat.toronto.edu is sent to the site and propagated to the
     local list.  In this case please contact your system administrator
     to be added to or dropped from the local S-news list.

The purpose of an FAQ is to avoid much of the traffic in common
questions and misconceptions.  Now we have one (thank you
Shanti Gomatam and B. Narasimhan) we need to learn to make use of it.

Brian Ripley