First, it's very simple if you follow the instructions in the welcome email. I just did it for numerous lists the morning, both unsubscribing an alternate alias and re-subscribing a new. Unfortunately, lots of people don't keep the welcome email, and the info isn't on the site as far as I can tell (or at least it's not clearly marked).
Surely, someone managing the website could add the following to the top of the lists page, put it in red, draw a box around it, and title it "Subscribe/Unsubscribe":
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There are two ways you can SUBSCRIBE to the list:
(1)Send a message to (where ??? is the name of the list):
<???[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(2) To start a subscription for an alternate address (e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"), just add a hyphen and your address (with '=' instead of '@') after the command word e.g.
<???[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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There are two ways you can UNSUBSCRIBE from the list:
(1) Send a message to (where ??? is the name of the list):
<???[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(2) To stop a subscription for an alternate address, (e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"), just add a hyphen and your address (with '=' instead of '@') after the command word e.g.
<???[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: Lyle H. Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: unsubscribe problems
It seems like many people are sending to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try sending to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
substituting your modified email address
e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No I haven't tried it yet because I'm still learning from this list. This
method was described in the original welcome message.
At 12:41 PM 4/25/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Seems like many of us are having problems unsubscribing using the
>unsubscribe email address. i've also tried sending mail to the list owner,
>but heard nothing in response.
>
>I've seen more than a handful who are irritated at not being able to get off
>this damn list and stop receiving boatloads of unwanted mail. Anyone got a
>solution other than sending undeliverable emails to the unsubscribe address?
>
>
>- m
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