Re: failing to unsubscribe

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) [030312 20:20]:
> i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million
> people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa.
> i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as
> mass+deb-curiosa@madduck.net. thus i do:
> 
>   /usr/sbin/sendmail debian-curiosa-request@lists.debian.org << EOM
>   From: mass+deb-curiosa@madduck.net
>   Subject: unsubscribe
>   EOM
> 
> and I get back:
> 
>   It has been requested that the following address:
>          mass+deb-curiosa@madduck.net
>   should be deleted from the debian-news mailing list.
>   Sorry, but this address has NOT been found on the list.
> 
> yet I receive debian-curiosa at exactly that address.
> 
> Are the list servers just plain broken or just in a bad mood?

Let's see how many people ridicule *you* and accuse you of not knowing
how to follow simple directions and so on... :-) You know, they do it to
non-contributors or people who've been overwhelmed by the volume.


Hall