On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:18:01PM -0600, bryan@visi.com wrote:
> Your not the only one having problems getting off thelist. I need to
> unsubscribe for the hollidays, but can't seam to get it to accept my
> address. I've tried from both the shell acount at my ISP and from the
> computer where I do most of my email from. I have even tried adding in
> the number it shows before the address when you get the unsubscribe
> error message. It just ends up sending me the same error message back.
Though unsubscribing should definitely be a supported operation, I've
found procmail to be an essential tool in managing mail coming from
over 10 high-traffic mailing lists, and about 20 or so others. If you're
thinking of unsubscribing for the holidays, perhaps procmail would be
an alternative way to handle the situation, which does not require
others to intervene on your behalf.
The essential bit of functionality is the ability to dump mail into
different spool files based on regular expressions matching header
lines. You could temporarily dump all mail with "debian-devel" in
the From:, To:, or Cc: lines to /dev/null, or to a file separate
from your primary mail spool (and perhaps do this permanently, too).
\begin{Ob-YMMV}
This may not be the way to do it for everyone, so if it's not suitable
for you, I won't push the issue.
\end{Ob-YMMV}
Cheers,
Bill
--
"I'm sure that nobody here would dream of misusing the Arpanet.
It's as unthinkable as fornication, or smoking pot."
-- Richard M. Stallman
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