On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Larry Jones wrote:
> Raghu Nair writes:
> >
> > Any body know how I can unsubscribe from the list..
>
> Go to <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/> and click on the list you
> want to unsubscribe from. Enter your email address in the box at the
> bottom of the page and click "Edit Options". You'll almost certainly
Unfortunately entering "Edit Options" requires having valid
authentication. Hence this recommendation is unworkable.
> then have to click on "Email My Password To Me" -- all of the GNU
> mailing lists were recently moved to new software (mailman) and they
> apparently just generated random passwords for all of the existing
> subscribers. Once you've got your password, you can enter it and click
> "Unsubscribe".
You apparently cannot get your password emailed to you without having a
valid password.
Ordinarily Mailman will send out passwords about once a month but the
installation at GNU is misconfigured and does not do so. Folks are
trapped on this list and do want to leave.
Peter Prymmer
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