Re: *** I BADLY WANT OUT !!!!!!!!!*** (unsubscribe)
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:05:55 +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
>On 0, Nick <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:04:33 -0300, you wrote:
>>
>> >1) I sent and BLANK e-mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with the
>> >subject: unsubscribe
>>
>> WRONG.
>>
>> You need to send an email with NO SUBJECT, BUT WITH A MESSAGE BODY
>> containing the single word "unsubscribe".
>>
>> OK ?
>
>Huh? In direct contradiction to the bit of advice at the end of each
>email?
Good point ! It does say that.
So I just checked the "Welcome" mails I get every time I subscribe to
this list (I unsubscribe & resubscribe fairly regularly - I just can't
cope with the volume all the time).
On 21st.May my welcome mail said :
To unsubscribe from this list, send "unsubscribe" in the
message body
(the subject should be blank) to:
<listname>-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
and you will be removed.
whereas on 31st.July the welcome mail said :
To unsubscribe from this list, send "unsubscribe" in the
message subject
to:
<listname>-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
and you will be removed after your confirmation reply has
been received.
So something has silently changed ... hmmm ...
Be that as it may, *whenever* I subscribe or unsubscribe from Debian
lists, I always play safe and send a mail with just the command word
in *both* the subject line *and* the message body.
Works for me :)
Good luck.
[PS: I make sure there is _nothing_ else in the message body -
especially no signature - some mailing list packages get confused by
such stuff.]
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
--
"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather
straps." -- Emo Phillips
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