The instructions Bruce gave me are on my website and seem to be just like the old majordomo ones, where if you put anything in the subject line it prevents it being interpreted as a mailing list command, and was one of the reasons why people had difficulty unsubscribing in the past, when unsubscribe emails kept appearing on the list and people (not reffering to you) didn't understand why it didn't work and took the hump when politely told they'd not read the instructions properly. If your message worked, Bruce's current list must be more forgiving than the old one and less strict than the instructions imply, unless he's manually catching the ones that resemble commands.
It does seem odd that the commands have to be in the message body, given that some mailers are set up to add automatic signatures such as "no virus in this email mate", at first glance at least it does seem as though it would be easier and less prone to problems if mailing lists like this worked off single commands in the subject line, although it would probably limit you to single commands in this case. OK, off to pick up the rattle I just threw out of the pram.... Dilwyn ----- Original Message ----- From: P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2 vs Word 97 > Dilwyn Jones writes: > > > > >Just testing > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >QL-Users Mailing List > > > Ah - but why did an 'unsubscribe' arrive in my inbox and not here? > > > > (1) command put in Subject line as well as body of email > > > > (2) extra text (ISP signature?) in the body of the email. > > > > Unsubscribe commands have to be in the body of the email only and subject > > line left blank. Otherwise the mailing list doesn't filter them out as a > > command - they go through like any other email. > > There were no destructions on how to unsubscribe from our new list, but this > worked in the end: > > I sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > 'unsubscribe' both in the subject line (and in the message body for good > measure) and mailed it from the offending mailbox. > > Per > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
