is there a list-administrator ?
Is there a list-administrator also listening in ? I have tried to unsubscribe a zillion times now and I'm still on this list. I would appreciate if the ml-admin could help me out here. thanks toon
RE: is there a list-administrator ?
-Original Message- From: Toon Knapen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:11 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: is there a list-administrator ? Is there a list-administrator also listening in ? I have tried to unsubscribe a zillion times now and I'm still on this list. I would appreciate if the ml-admin could help me out here. thanks toon I'm not a list-admin, but did you try sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike
Re: is there a list-administrator ?
I'm not a list-admin, but did you try sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the account with which you subscribed? (just to make sure) It should be the same one with which you posted to the list, as the list shouldn't let you post if you're not subscribed. -tim
Re: is there a list-administrator ?
Toon Knapen wrote: Is there a list-administrator also listening in ? I have tried to unsubscribe a zillion times now and I'm still on this list. I would appreciate if the ml-admin could help me out here. Somewhat modified version of what Tony M sent awhile ago... Unsubscribing from the vim or vim-dev list requires the following steps: 1. Send an email to the list you want off of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -and/or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] That email does not need any body text, but its From: line must contain your subscribed address. The From: line *must* be the same as the one from which you subscribed and are receiving list mail! 2. Wait (usually a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, depending on how often you fetch mail from your server) for a robot autoreply to the message you sent at step 1. 3. The robot autoreply (step 2) is there to check that the message (step 1) was really from you! It will contain instructions on how to complete the unsubscription. 4. Do what the autoreply says: this usually means sending an email to an address containing a complicated pseudorandom key, and acts as verification that its really you that wants to unsubscribe, not some prankster. 5. Shortly after you complete step 4, the list mail for this list should stop coming in.
Re: is there a list-administrator ?
Toon Knapen wrote: Is there a list-administrator also listening in ? I have tried to unsubscribe a zillion times now and I'm still on this list. I would appreciate if the ml-admin could help me out here. thanks toon AFAIK, there is no list-admin; just the mail robot. Or if there is one, he only reads the list when the moon is blue on the 4th Thursday of a week, and I don't know his phone number (if any). Let's recap the steps. 1. Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The body and Subject can be anything (even empty) but the From MUST be your email-address-of-record. I suppose the latter is [EMAIL PROTECTED] but you should be able to check it by looking at the source of any list post you got (using Ctrl-U in Thunderbird) and checking the topmost Received line (including the indented lines that are logically part of it) for a string like for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- Warning: you will probably receive the present email twice: once directly and once via the list. The list post is the one whose Received-lines (not necessarily the topmost one) mention foobar.math.fu-berlin.de. 2. That email (sent at step 1) will trigger an autoreply. You MUST receive and read that autoreply, not delete it unread: IT IS NOT SPAM. The autoreply will tell you how to complete the unsubscription process, and it will include a secret code to make sure that the email at (1) wasn't sent by someone else to unsubscribe you against your will. (Spoofing from-lines is very easy.) 3. After you do whatever the autoreply tells you, the list mail should soon stop. Best regards, Tony. -- Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler
Re: is there a list-administrator ?
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Toon Knapen wrote: Is there a list-administrator also listening in ? I have tried to unsubscribe a zillion times now and I'm still on this list. I would appreciate if the ml-admin could help me out here. Somewhat modified version of what Tony M sent awhile ago... Unsubscribing from the vim or vim-dev list requires the following steps: 1. Send an email to the list you want off of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -and/or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] That email does not need any body text, but its From: line must contain your subscribed address. The From: line *must* be the same as the one from which you subscribed and are receiving list mail! 2. Wait (usually a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, depending on how often you fetch mail from your server) for a robot autoreply to the message you sent at step 1. 3. The robot autoreply (step 2) is there to check that the message (step 1) was really from you! It will contain instructions on how to complete the unsubscription. 4. Do what the autoreply says: this usually means sending an email to an address containing a complicated pseudorandom key, and acts as verification that its really you that wants to unsubscribe, not some prankster. 5. Shortly after you complete step 4, the list mail for this list should stop coming in. Congrats, Dr. Chip! You put it more clearly than I could. Best regards, Tony. -- A widow who fancied a man some Was diddled three times in a hansome. When she clamored for more Her young man became sore And exclaimed My name's Simpson not Samson.
Re: is there a list-administrator ?
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: AFAIK, there is no list-admin; just the mail robot. Or if there is one, he only reads the list when the moon is blue on the 4th Thursday of a week, and I don't know his phone number (if any). The Vim mailing list page (http://www.vim.org/maillist.php) mentions [EMAIL PROTECTED], but moon is blue on the 4th Thursday of a week might still apply... -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
