Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS
followup at end...
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, John Lord wrote:
> Hi Sebastiaan
>
> On 14-Mar-02, you wrote:
>
> > High,
>
> > Read very carefully: this is only displayed in every message once:
>
> >> > --
> >> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> >> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
> >> > listmaster@lists.debian.org
> >>
> > (or twice by the time this arrives)
>
> But the problem is it dosn't seem to work, "unsubbing" OR "subbing". I
> am subsribed to this list with a mail addy that I want to cancel, and
> join this and others with another addy.
>
> Try as I might nothing works beyond getting a 'CONFIRM' mail, which I
> reply to in a number of ways, just to be certain. So I can understand
> others frustration in this matter. I have mailed the
> listmaster@lists.debian.org and was told what list I was already subbed
> to ;-/
>
> ARRGGHH I already know that......
>
> ATM I have to d/l mails on one side of my system, forward the
> interesting ones to my Debian side. Then boot into Debian to continue.
> If someone could tell us why it is so hard to do a simple sub/unsub, or
> correct this I would be very gratefull.
>
On another list, I had to configure my mail client's 'From:' header to my
*old* address. This way when I replied to the 'confirm cancel', the list
server could verify my identity.
Don't know if that'll work on this list or not. Hope this helps.
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