Re: remove from list please

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>]

On Monday 26 March 2007 21:09, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > 2007/3/25, les shartle <les221956@yahoo.com>:
> > >please remove me from mailing list  my email is les221956@yahoo.com
> > > thanks a lot les shartle
>
> On 25.03.07 22:09, galevsky@gmail.com wrote:
> > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a mailing list, please send mail to
> >
> > <listname>-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> >
> > with the word `subscribe' or `unsubscribe' as Subject.
> >
> > *Please remember the -REQUEST part of the address.*
>
> I'm not sure it will work - he sends html+plaintext e-mails, whith are not
> understood by some mailing list managers

I must admit that a few weeks ago, and being seriously T'd off by all the OT 
stuff on the list, I tried to unsubscribe myself using that link at the 
bottom of every posting to the list.

3 times I tried that, and got zilch.

I do keep all welcome messages to lists thankfully, and used the link.
 http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

This page has a Subsription/Unsubsription line which should be highlighted. A 
click on that, and you move on to page 2. A few lines down on this page you 
should see highlighted "subsription or unsubscription web forms". Ok click on 
that. This now takes you to a page with all the mailing lists, and the 
one/ones you are subscribed to will be highlighted. Click on "debian-user" 
for example, and that takes you to a new page. Here you have a box for your 
email address, and a "Subscribe", and "Unsubscribe" button. Enter your email 
address, then click on "Unsubscribe". This worked for me, but I have since 
resubscribed as the OT stuff seems to have died down.

I know there are a lot of folks that post to the list that don't have english 
as their first language, but they've already been down the path I described 
above, to subscribe to the list in the first place . It should not be too 
difficult to go down the same path to unsubscribe.

There do seem to be some problems with that unsubscribe link at the bottom of 
every posting from debian-user list though. I use Kmail, and that link would 
not unsubscribe me.

This is not a rant, just an observation.

Nigel.