Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:31:27 +0900 From: Ramakant <ramakant@novanet.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNSUBSCRIBE Message-ID: <33753D8F.4505@novanet.net.au> References: <21208.863300501@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > 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 thinking "Geeze, what a complete idiot!" Perhaps some of them > are even now sending you email telling you this in more detail. :-) > There are several subscribers like me out there (I'm sure) whao are saying - "look at these snobs expecting people to follow complicated rules, can't they write a user-friendly Majrodomo that traps all such messages and does the needful, instead of sending such condescending smartass replies to subscribers ?" > 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. I did just that and discovered that I'm expected to email Majordomo@.... saying unsusbcribe <list_name>. I wonder how many iterations still remain to get myself unsubscribed from this list. > > 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. > > 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 > try majordomo FIRST! Our postmaster is very overworked!). > > Thank you! > > Jordanhelp
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