Re: failing to unsubscribe
martin f krafft wrote: an update: Thank you for the update. I found it useful. with excellent MLMs like sympa and Mailman, ... I am the mailing list manager for several gnu.org lists running mailman. Mailman has a severe set of bugs of its own. I would not recommend it at this time. Let's not jump from the frying pan into the fire. Ecartis anyone? I have not tried it and so the bugs there that I don't know about must be better than the ones I do know about. :-) Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: failing to unsubscribe
an update: i am subscribed with addresses that involve the extension character plus (+) like, e.g. so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when i sent messages to the unsubscription system with that address, not even a confirmation would come back. not until i sent a subject line like this: Subject: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note the escaped plus) since the plus is perfectly valid and widely used on mailing lists, this is a bug, right? now i am at least receiving confirmation messages. sending them back still doesn't do jack. i now invalidated the subscribed users, sending SMTP 550 bounces back each time. maybe the list administrators could work toward a properly working list system. with excellent MLMs like sympa and Mailman, i don't understand how an organisation like debian can employ a mailing list system that just doesn't work as expected. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Keyserver problems? http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
failing to unsubscribe
i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i do: /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe EOM and I get back: It has been requested that the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be deleted from the debian-news mailing list. Sorry, but this address has NOT been found on the list. yet I receive debian-curiosa at exactly that address. Are the list servers just plain broken or just in a bad mood? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: failing to unsubscribe
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030312 20:20]: i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i do: /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe EOM and I get back: It has been requested that the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be deleted from the debian-news mailing list. Sorry, but this address has NOT been found on the list. yet I receive debian-curiosa at exactly that address. Are the list servers just plain broken or just in a bad mood? Let's see how many people ridicule *you* and accuse you of not knowing how to follow simple directions and so on... :-) You know, they do it to non-contributors or people who've been overwhelmed by the volume. Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: failing to unsubscribe
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:56:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i do: /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe EOM and I get back: It has been requested that the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be deleted from the debian-news mailing list. Sorry, but this address has NOT been found on the list. yet I receive debian-curiosa at exactly that address. Are the list servers just plain broken or just in a bad mood? Sometimes things are a bit spooky. I'm not sure exactly what's wrong but I assume that unsubscribe requests are processed using some form of regex which doesn't always work. For instance, a few months ago I was subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I subscribed to all the debian lists I frequent as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then sent unsubscribe requests for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Imagine my surprise when [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unsubscribed instead 9and no, I didn't send the requests from my incanus.net account). Good luck! -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A young man wrote to Mozart and said: Q: Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started? A: A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony. Q: But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old. A: But I never asked anybody how. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
