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administrative notes, especially for Eudora users
``` As a periodic reminder, to unsubscribe from RRE, send a message like this:
To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: unsubscribe
Also, a note to users of the Eudora mail-reading program. Lately I've had several problems because people have used Eudora to forward messages from RRE to other people or mailing lists. The problem is that Eudora generates these bogus header fields that look like:
From: Phil Agre
even when so-and-so, the person forwarding the message, has added his or her own text to the message, usually a commentary at the beginning explaining why s/he thinks it is important. The result is that comments are ascribed to me that I did not make. Recently, for example, someone writing a chapter for a book asked my permission (thankfully) to attach my name to some things that I supposedly said on a mailing list to which I have never sent anything. These were things that I'd never said and am not sure whether I believe.
Other problems arise when people use Eudora to forward RRE messages to mailing lists that reject mail from non-members, with the result that I get an automatic complaint from the mailing list. (For example, "Your message to E-POETRY was rejected because you were not authorized" -- even though I had never heard of E-POETRY.)
Sometimes I even get angry messages from list maintainers asking why I have sent in appropriate materials to lists that I had never even heard of.
As you might guess, I find these phenomena annoying. If you use Eudora, please don't use it to forward RRE materials to other people. And if you happen to have any contact with the people who maintain Eudora, please petition them to remove this bogus feature from their program.
Thanks very much.
Phil ```
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