Re: impossible to get off the list

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> 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}

  the problem is that the email is staying at my ISP and since my
computer is off it does not matter what magic I do with procmail...

  I would not care if the email would get to my computer, with today HD
prices I have enough space for few weeks of debian (at current amount of
posts:-)

  that's why I need to temporarily get off the most intensive mailing
lists. I guess a lot of toher people are in the same situtation...

	erik