Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-13 Thread upscope
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:50:58 PM James Knott wrote:
> upscope wrote:
> > Another area I found to be a real pain on most mailing lists. To
> > unsubscribe you must do it from the address you originally scribed
> > from.
> > 
> > That means you have to it before you change ISP's. I ran into this
> > when I moved 250 miles from my old ISP. Not knowing new ISP at that
> > time, I could not log on and change addresses and could not
> > unsubscribe old address. Old location was DSL, new one was  100
> > Mbit/s fiber optic.
> Just resubscribe from your new address.  When the old account is
> closed, the messages will be rejected and the list should then stop
> sending to that old address.
> 
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Thanks I'll try that.
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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak


On 03/11/2014 12:54 AM, Tubular wrote:


Back to OO - your explanation made sense until I saw the inability to 
send from the remailer subscribed email address.  When I subscribed to 
the list, I didn't have options . . . clicked the link and I was added.


I have had it happen, but it is an unusual case not likely seen by a 
normal user. It had to do with a custom server being improperly 
configured and then later the incorrect user names being fixed. Based on 
who owned the email domain, emails subscribed with a specific email 
address (different name) continued to be received properly, but it was 
no longer possible to use that name for outgoing email. Odd case.



What does v/r mean?


Very Respectfully



What does IMHO mean?


In My Humble Opinion



Just saw someone is requesting a change of email address - doesn't 
that require unsubscribing from the original email address then 
re-subscribing with the new one?  Darn, I just opened another can of 
worms.


I believe you to be correct.


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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Tom Panfil  wrote:
>
>> These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.
>
>
> They do, if they use GMail SMTP servers which allow setting up "aliases"
> for sending email.
>

And remember, Moderators are generally happy to help users unsubscribe
if they run into actual technical difficulties.  One way they can
indicate they are running into problems would be to send a note that
says something like:

1) I tried to unsubscribe

2) Here is the command I sent

3) Here is the error message I received back

-Rob

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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Tom Panfil  wrote:

> These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.


They do, if they use GMail SMTP servers which allow setting up "aliases"
for sending email.

FC

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Revolucionario
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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread James Knott
upscope wrote:
> Another area I found to be a real pain on most mailing lists. To 
> unsubscribe you must do it from the address you originally scribed from.
>
> That means you have to it before you change ISP's. I ran into this when 
> I moved 250 miles from my old ISP. Not knowing new ISP at that time, I 
> could not log on and change addresses and could not unsubscribe old 
> address. Old location was DSL, new one was  100 Mbit/s fiber optic.

Just resubscribe from your new address.  When the old account is closed,
the messages will be rejected and the list should then stop sending to
that old address.

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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-12 Thread upscope

On Monday, March 10, 2014 10:12:06 PM Tom Panfil wrote:
[snip]
> Hello OpenOffice Apache Moderators,
> 
> I don't want to unsubscribe from any of the three project lists to
> which I subscribe (users, dev, api)  but like you,  I've seen too
> many requests sent to the lists from people who want to unsubscribe. 
> I assume that something is finally done administratively to
> unsubscribe their addresses since they eventually stop pestering.
> 
> Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional
> associations register using a Remailer Address serviced by the
> organization.  The use of a Remailer Address enables provision of at
[/snip]

Another area I found to be a real pain on most mailing lists. To 
unsubscribe you must do it from the address you originally scribed from.

That means you have to it before you change ISP's. I ran into this when 
I moved 250 miles from my old ISP. Not knowing new ISP at that time, I 
could not log on and change addresses and could not unsubscribe old 
address. Old location was DSL, new one was  100 Mbit/s fiber optic.

be nice if you could specify old log-in address in the unsubscribe 
message. 

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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Panfil

On 3/11/14 12:54 AM, Tubular wrote:

Howdy, Tom

Hello Tubular,


Back to OO - your explanation made sense until I saw the inability to 
send from the remailer subscribed email address.  When I subscribed to 
the list, I didn't have options . . . clicked the link and I was added.


I had thought that I'd succeeded in registering to use my IEEE Remailer 
address, but in fact I now think that my requests were not considered by 
the automated subscription system, and I was thus subscribed via my ISP 
provided E-Mail address.  I was not able to find any option.


I do suggest that the subscription instructions (I forget where they 
are) should make it absolutely clear to prospective new subscribers that 
the only way to subscribe for mail to be sent to an e-mail address is to 
send one's subscription request directly from that address.  The 
Confirmation E-Mail message should emphatically state that the required 
reply to the message it will be processed automatically, and that any 
request for something special, particularly use of one's Remailer E-Mail 
address, will be ignored without consideration.

What does v/r mean?

Very respectfully


What does IMHO mean? 

In my humble opinion

My thanks for your service.

Tom

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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Tom Panfil wrote:

I've seen too many
requests sent to the lists from people who want to unsubscribe.  I
assume that something is finally done administratively to unsubscribe
their addresses since they eventually stop pestering.


Moderators often step in without spamming the whole list with this. But 
(as the "help" message says: you all can get it as explained in the 
footer) if someone is trying to unsubscribe and experiences problems he 
should contact directly the moderators at

users-owner(AT)openoffice.apache.org
They will work with you to help you unsubscribe. Complaining to the 
whole mailing list will only annoy some hundreds people.



Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional
associations register using a Remailer Address


This was already discussed, but, as you already found out, this is not 
an issue with these lists.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-10 Thread James Plante
FYI, I get many messages from this list that do not have the "unsubscribe" 
footer. Don't know what's up with that, and since I don't want to unsubscribe, 
I don't care. 

Thought you might find the info handy for troubleshooting.

Jim 

On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Tom Panfil  wrote:

> Hi Tubular,
> 
> Well, I just inspected headers and see that I had fooled myself. My original 
> subscription request was:
> 
>Subject:   Subscribe to OpenOffice Users Mailing List
>Body:   Hello, Subscribe tapan...@ieee.org
> 
> My reply to the "confirm subscribe to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org"  was:
> 
>Subject:   Confirm Subscription to ooo-user Mailing List
>Body:   Hi, I do want to subscribe to the ooo-users mailing list,
>   BUT I would prefer that my mail be set to my Reply-To 
> Address: tapan...@ieee.org
>   Rather than to my From Address: tap.h...@verizon.net
> 
> The resulting WELCOME message said in part:
> 
> Acknowledgment: I have added the address
>tap.h...@verizon.net
>  to the ooo-users mailing list.
>  Welcome to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org!
>  Please save this message so that you know the address you are
>  subscribed under, in case you later want to unsubscribe or change your
>  subscription address.
> 
> So, my attempt to con the list server to use my IEEE Remailer address failed.
> 
> It looks like people are not allowed to subscribe via their preferred 
> remailer addresses.
> 
> You must have actually been seeing people writing from ISP supplied addresses 
> other than the ISP provided addresses from which they subscribed.
> 
> You must be right -- Maybe some others have been under the same misconception 
> which I just aired.  Maybe this will help them.
> 
> v/r,
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 3/10/14 10:57 PM, Tubular wrote:
>> Thank you, Tom for the insight; however, if these people cannot send email 
>> from these type of email addresses, how did they get on the list to start 
>> with?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tom Panfil wrote:
>>> Hello OpenOffice Apache Moderators,
>>> 
>>> I don't want to unsubscribe from any of the three project lists to which I 
>>> subscribe (users, dev, api)  but like you,  I've seen too many requests 
>>> sent to the lists from people who want to unsubscribe.  I assume that 
>>> something is finally done administratively to unsubscribe their addresses 
>>> since they eventually stop pestering.
>>> 
>>> Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional 
>>> associations register using a Remailer Address serviced by the 
>>> organization.  The use of a Remailer Address enables provision of at least 
>>> the following services by the organization:
>>> 
>>> * Virus scanning of mail sent to the member's "Remailer Address"
>>> * Quarantining of S--- sent to the member's "Remailer Address" --
>>>   Note that I did not use the "S-Word" since using it might cause
>>>   Verizon refuse to send the message considering it to be S.
>>> * Forwarding of non-infected non-S--- messages to the member's ISP
>>>   provided addresses.
>>> * Ease of changing of ISPs by simply registering a new ISP supplied
>>>   e-mail address with the Remailer Service so that mail sent to the
>>>   Remailer address is forwarded to the member's "new" current ISP
>>>   provided address.  Correspondents need not be informed of the change
>>>   of ISP.
>>> 
>>> These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.  They can and 
>>> usually do include their preferred Remailer Address in the Reply-To field 
>>> of their message headers.  Their e-mail messages are sent from their ISP 
>>> provided addresses.
>>> 
>>> So, I think that a significant proportion of those who send to the list 
>>> asking to be removed have tried sending to the address in the footer of the 
>>> messages and were not removed from the list since they are subscribed with 
>>> a Remailer Address.  That address from which they are send is different 
>>> from the address which is subscribed
>>> 
>>> I recommend that some mechanism be established for such subscribers to take 
>>> action to be removed from OpenOffice Apache lists.  The instructions they 
>>> need should be provided in the footer with the other three instructions.
>>> 
>>> I can't imagine that *no* developers and maintainers of OpenOffice know of 
>>> Remailer Addresses.  How could this problem have festered so long?   Does 
>>> the project cadre really not know about Remailer Addresses?   If you can 
>>> maintain Apache projects you must be able to understand this dilemma now 
>>> that I have explained it somewhat clearly, I think.
>>> 
>>> Note that I am subscribed via an IEEE Remailer address.
>>> 
>>> I'd no doubt have the same problem which these other poor souls have if I'd 
>>> try to unsubscribe.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-10 Thread Tubular

Howdy, Tom

I am an elderly person in the category of being too old to be creating 
web pages - a very nice gentleman created a template and is on the ready 
if I run into major trouble such as the site crashing.   This kind man 
moved me from depending on Dreamweaver to editing code in a note pad 
type product.


Back to OO - your explanation made sense until I saw the inability to 
send from the remailer subscribed email address.  When I subscribed to 
the list, I didn't have options . . . clicked the link and I was added.


What does v/r mean?

What does IMHO mean?

Just saw someone is requesting a change of email address - doesn't that 
require unsubscribing from the original email address then 
re-subscribing with the new one?  Darn, I just opened another can of worms.






Tom Panfil wrote:

Hi Tubular,

Well, I just inspected headers and see that I had fooled myself. My 
original subscription request was:


Subject:   Subscribe to OpenOffice Users Mailing List
Body:   Hello, Subscribe tapan...@ieee.org

My reply to the "confirm subscribe to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org"  
was:


Subject:   Confirm Subscription to ooo-user Mailing List
Body:   Hi, I do want to subscribe to the ooo-users mailing list,
   BUT I would prefer that my mail be set to my 
Reply-To Address: tapan...@ieee.org

   Rather than to my From Address: tap.h...@verizon.net

The resulting WELCOME message said in part:

 Acknowledgment: I have added the address
tap.h...@verizon.net
  to the ooo-users mailing list.
  Welcome to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org!
  Please save this message so that you know the address you are
  subscribed under, in case you later want to unsubscribe or 
change your

  subscription address.

So, my attempt to con the list server to use my IEEE Remailer address 
failed.


It looks like people are not allowed to subscribe via their preferred 
remailer addresses.


You must have actually been seeing people writing from ISP supplied 
addresses other than the ISP provided addresses from which they 
subscribed.


You must be right -- Maybe some others have been under the same 
misconception which I just aired.  Maybe this will help them.


v/r,

Tom

On 3/10/14 10:57 PM, Tubular wrote:
Thank you, Tom for the insight; however, if these people cannot send 
email from these type of email addresses, how did they get on the 
list to start with?




Tom Panfil wrote:

Hello OpenOffice Apache Moderators,

I don't want to unsubscribe from any of the three project lists to 
which I subscribe (users, dev, api)  but like you,  I've seen too 
many requests sent to the lists from people who want to 
unsubscribe.  I assume that something is finally done 
administratively to unsubscribe their addresses since they 
eventually stop pestering.


Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional 
associations register using a Remailer Address serviced by the 
organization.  The use of a Remailer Address enables provision of at 
least the following services by the organization:


 * Virus scanning of mail sent to the member's "Remailer Address"
 * Quarantining of S--- sent to the member's "Remailer Address" --
   Note that I did not use the "S-Word" since using it might cause
   Verizon refuse to send the message considering it to be S.
 * Forwarding of non-infected non-S--- messages to the member's ISP
   provided addresses.
 * Ease of changing of ISPs by simply registering a new ISP supplied
   e-mail address with the Remailer Service so that mail sent to the
   Remailer address is forwarded to the member's "new" current ISP
   provided address.  Correspondents need not be informed of the change
   of ISP.

These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.  They can 
and usually do include their preferred Remailer Address in the 
Reply-To field of their message headers.  Their e-mail messages are 
sent from their ISP provided addresses.


So, I think that a significant proportion of those who send to the 
list asking to be removed have tried sending to the address in the 
footer of the messages and were not removed from the list since they 
are subscribed with a Remailer Address.  That address from which 
they are send is different from the address which is subscribed


I recommend that some mechanism be established for such subscribers 
to take action to be removed from OpenOffice Apache lists.  The 
instructions they need should be provided in the footer with the 
other three instructions.


I can't imagine that *no* developers and maintainers of OpenOffice 
know of Remailer Addresses.  How could this problem have festered so 
long?   Does the project cadre really not know about Remailer 
Addresses?   If you can maintain Apache projects you must be able to 
understand this dilemma now that I have explained it somewhat 
clearly, I think.


Note that I am subscribed via an IEEE Remailer address.

I'd no dou

Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Panfil

Hi Tubular,

Well, I just inspected headers and see that I had fooled myself. My 
original subscription request was:


Subject:   Subscribe to OpenOffice Users Mailing List
Body:   Hello, Subscribe tapan...@ieee.org

My reply to the "confirm subscribe to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org"  was:

Subject:   Confirm Subscription to ooo-user Mailing List
Body:   Hi, I do want to subscribe to the ooo-users mailing list,
   BUT I would prefer that my mail be set to my 
Reply-To Address: tapan...@ieee.org

   Rather than to my From Address: tap.h...@verizon.net

The resulting WELCOME message said in part:

 Acknowledgment: I have added the address
tap.h...@verizon.net
  to the ooo-users mailing list.
  Welcome to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org!
  Please save this message so that you know the address you are
  subscribed under, in case you later want to unsubscribe or change 
your

  subscription address.

So, my attempt to con the list server to use my IEEE Remailer address 
failed.


It looks like people are not allowed to subscribe via their preferred 
remailer addresses.


You must have actually been seeing people writing from ISP supplied 
addresses other than the ISP provided addresses from which they subscribed.


You must be right -- Maybe some others have been under the same 
misconception which I just aired.  Maybe this will help them.


v/r,

Tom

On 3/10/14 10:57 PM, Tubular wrote:
Thank you, Tom for the insight; however, if these people cannot send 
email from these type of email addresses, how did they get on the list 
to start with?




Tom Panfil wrote:

Hello OpenOffice Apache Moderators,

I don't want to unsubscribe from any of the three project lists to 
which I subscribe (users, dev, api)  but like you,  I've seen too 
many requests sent to the lists from people who want to unsubscribe.  
I assume that something is finally done administratively to 
unsubscribe their addresses since they eventually stop pestering.


Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional 
associations register using a Remailer Address serviced by the 
organization.  The use of a Remailer Address enables provision of at 
least the following services by the organization:


 * Virus scanning of mail sent to the member's "Remailer Address"
 * Quarantining of S--- sent to the member's "Remailer Address" --
   Note that I did not use the "S-Word" since using it might cause
   Verizon refuse to send the message considering it to be S.
 * Forwarding of non-infected non-S--- messages to the member's ISP
   provided addresses.
 * Ease of changing of ISPs by simply registering a new ISP supplied
   e-mail address with the Remailer Service so that mail sent to the
   Remailer address is forwarded to the member's "new" current ISP
   provided address.  Correspondents need not be informed of the change
   of ISP.

These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.  They can 
and usually do include their preferred Remailer Address in the 
Reply-To field of their message headers.  Their e-mail messages are 
sent from their ISP provided addresses.


So, I think that a significant proportion of those who send to the 
list asking to be removed have tried sending to the address in the 
footer of the messages and were not removed from the list since they 
are subscribed with a Remailer Address.  That address from which they 
are send is different from the address which is subscribed


I recommend that some mechanism be established for such subscribers 
to take action to be removed from OpenOffice Apache lists.  The 
instructions they need should be provided in the footer with the 
other three instructions.


I can't imagine that *no* developers and maintainers of OpenOffice 
know of Remailer Addresses.  How could this problem have festered so 
long?   Does the project cadre really not know about Remailer 
Addresses?   If you can maintain Apache projects you must be able to 
understand this dilemma now that I have explained it somewhat 
clearly, I think.


Note that I am subscribed via an IEEE Remailer address.

I'd no doubt have the same problem which these other poor souls have 
if I'd try to unsubscribe.






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Re: AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-10 Thread Tubular
Thank you, Tom for the insight; however, if these people cannot send 
email from these type of email addresses, how did they get on the list 
to start with?




Tom Panfil wrote:

Hello OpenOffice Apache Moderators,

I don't want to unsubscribe from any of the three project lists to 
which I subscribe (users, dev, api)  but like you,  I've seen too many 
requests sent to the lists from people who want to unsubscribe.  I 
assume that something is finally done administratively to unsubscribe 
their addresses since they eventually stop pestering.


Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional 
associations register using a Remailer Address serviced by the 
organization.  The use of a Remailer Address enables provision of at 
least the following services by the organization:


 * Virus scanning of mail sent to the member's "Remailer Address"
 * Quarantining of S--- sent to the member's "Remailer Address"  --
   Note that I did not use the "S-Word" since using it might cause
   Verizon refuse to send the message considering it to be S.
 * Forwarding of non-infected non-S--- messages to the member's ISP
   provided addresses.
 * Ease of changing of ISPs by simply registering a new ISP supplied
   e-mail address with the Remailer Service so that mail sent to the
   Remailer address is forwarded to the member's "new" current ISP
   provided address.  Correspondents need not be informed of the change
   of ISP.

These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.  They can 
and usually do include their preferred Remailer Address in the 
Reply-To field of their message headers.  Their e-mail messages are 
sent from their ISP provided addresses.


So, I think that a significant proportion of those who send to the 
list asking to be removed have tried sending to the address in the 
footer of the messages and were not removed from the list since they 
are subscribed with a Remailer Address.  That address from which they 
are send is different from the address which is subscribed


I recommend that some mechanism be established for such subscribers to 
take action to be removed from OpenOffice Apache lists.  The 
instructions they need should be provided in the footer with the other 
three instructions.


I can't imagine that *no* developers and maintainers of OpenOffice 
know of Remailer Addresses.  How could this problem have festered so 
long?   Does the project cadre really not know about Remailer 
Addresses?   If you can maintain Apache projects you must be able to 
understand this dilemma now that I have explained it somewhat clearly, 
I think.


Note that I am subscribed via an IEEE Remailer address.

I'd no doubt have the same problem which these other poor souls have 
if I'd try to unsubscribe.






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AMAZING -- Case of Subscription via a Remailer Address [was: Re: Removing yourself from the list :)]

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Panfil

Hello OpenOffice Apache Moderators,

I don't want to unsubscribe from any of the three project lists to which 
I subscribe (users, dev, api)  but like you,  I've seen too many 
requests sent to the lists from people who want to unsubscribe.  I 
assume that something is finally done administratively to unsubscribe 
their addresses since they eventually stop pestering.


Many people who are members of ACM or IEEE or other professional 
associations register using a Remailer Address serviced by the 
organization.  The use of a Remailer Address enables provision of at 
least the following services by the organization:


 * Virus scanning of mail sent to the member's "Remailer Address"
 * Quarantining of S--- sent to the member's "Remailer Address"  --
   Note that I did not use the "S-Word" since using it might cause
   Verizon refuse to send the message considering it to be S.
 * Forwarding of non-infected non-S--- messages to the member's ISP
   provided addresses.
 * Ease of changing of ISPs by simply registering a new ISP supplied
   e-mail address with the Remailer Service so that mail sent to the
   Remailer address is forwarded to the member's "new" current ISP
   provided address.  Correspondents need not be informed of the change
   of ISP.

These people *cannot* send from their Remailer Addresses.  They can and 
usually do include their preferred Remailer Address in the Reply-To 
field of their message headers.  Their e-mail messages are sent from 
their ISP provided addresses.


So, I think that a significant proportion of those who send to the list 
asking to be removed have tried sending to the address in the footer of 
the messages and were not removed from the list since they are 
subscribed with a Remailer Address.  That address from which they are 
send is different from the address which is subscribed


I recommend that some mechanism be established for such subscribers to 
take action to be removed from OpenOffice Apache lists.  The 
instructions they need should be provided in the footer with the other 
three instructions.


I can't imagine that *no* developers and maintainers of OpenOffice know 
of Remailer Addresses.  How could this problem have festered so long?   
Does the project cadre really not know about Remailer Addresses?   If 
you can maintain Apache projects you must be able to understand this 
dilemma now that I have explained it somewhat clearly, I think.


Note that I am subscribed via an IEEE Remailer address.

I'd no doubt have the same problem which these other poor souls have if 
I'd try to unsubscribe.


--
*v/r,
   Tom Panfil
   eBureaucrat (Ret.)

Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR
drivers to identify their corporate sponsors
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On 3/10/14 6:46 PM, Peter Junge wrote:
To my experience --being a moderator for a couple of years-- one of 
the most common mistakes is that subscribers are trying to remove 
themselves with a different email address but the one that is 
subscribed to the list.


On 11/03/14 06:25, Shari wrote:

It's simple to be removed, however not by sending in an email requesting
it. As it says at the bottom of every email. Just click the email
address and send from the address you're receiving the emails to, and it
should happen automatically.

To unsubscribe, e-mail:users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Good luck!
Shari



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