Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:15:21 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: m_hogstrom@cyberdude.com Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unsubscribe newsletter Message-ID: <8870.875513721@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:04:45 %2B0200." <Pine.GSO.3.96.970929080004.21747A-100000@reaper>
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> Hello > > How do I unsubscribe to announce@freebsd.org? > You should have instructions on your site how you unsubscribe. You were sent this information when you subscribed. Here's also my general FAQ: --- If you're receiving this message, it's because you recently sent an "unsubscribe" request to one of the lists, perhaps thinking that you were reaching an automated system instead of the multiple-thousands of people who are now seeing your "unsubscribe" in their mailboxes and probably somewhat annoyed with you. This message attempts to clear some of that up for you so you don't make the same mistake again. First off, just about all mailing lists on the internet support the -request naming standard, meaning that if the mailing list you wish to get off of (or make some comment to the administrators about) is named "taco-lovers" then the administrative alias will be called "taco-lovers-request". You do NOT send your messages to taco-lovers, since that's only going to get to the fans of that most tasty mexican dish, not the person (or program) who actually maintains the list and can do something about your request. Second, for those who plead ignorance of all this, let me just point out that you *were* sent a welcome message when you joined the FreeBSD mailing lists telling you to send ALL administrative requests to majordomo@freebsd.org (the *-request aliases for our lists just point to this one). Our mailing list software is fully automated, and it's up to the users to add and remove themselves as they see fit - no FreeBSD personnel are involved in this! If you just threw this welcome message away and didn't read it, you have only yourself to blame for the flames which may now be filling your mailbox. To briefly summarize what this message said again: You tell majordomo@freebsd.org when you want to unsubscribe to a list by sending it the string: unsubscribe <listname> In a mail message body. If you have tried repeatedly with majordomo to remove yourself and it's not working, you still don't want to send a message to the list since the users can't help you - send mail in such cases to postmaster@freebsd.org and the FreeBSD postmaster will manually intervene to figure out why you're having problems with majordomo (and please try majordomo FIRST! Our postmaster is very overworked!). Thank you! Jordan
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