On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 03:23, Al Davis wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:04:38AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > Oh, as for subscription address, maybe we need to tell > > > > outlook user how to read their mail header. People > > > > forgets where they subscribed from and outlook users tend > > > > to lack skill to find it or read web site. > > > On Friday 28 March 2003 15:22, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > <style="mostly joking"> > > > Or, we could require users to pass some sort of > > > comprehension test before successfully subscribing to the > > > list > > > </style> > > On Friday 28 March 2003 08:56 am, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Such as changing the confirmatory mail when subscribing? It > > does not longer contain the instructions in the body, but in > > the signature... (To subscribe, just reply to this e-mail...) > > Change the "confirm" procedure .... > > The way it is now: > When subscrbing the list sends you a message. You must confirm > by responding to it, keeping the subject intact. Just "reply" > does it. The body doesn't matter. > > Proposed change: > The list sends you a message. You respond, keeping the subject > intact, but in the body you must copy the "Received" headers > from the confirmation message. The body must consist of that > and nothing else. > > How's that for "some sort of comprehension test". I am getting the impression that many people commenting in this thread didn't pay attention to what the OP was dealing with. IIUC, his email address has been changed by his ISP from .com to .net, and while they are still accepting email to the .com address and putting it in his .net mailbox, he hasn't been able to email out as the .com address to unsubscribe (although it is immensely questionable if he is comprehending that it must be that address he uses to unsubscribe.) Passing a comprehension test as described here is not going to demonstrate sufficient clue-iostity to deal with unsubscribing when you can no longer use the outbound address. That said, again IIUC, he should be able to do it by switching his self-identifying email address in the original and confirmation messages to debian-user-request@list.debian.org, so that it knows to deal with the .com address. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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