This person is getting this message up to 200 times a day. He is no longer on the Arch-L list and can't figure out why the messages keep coming. The ARCH-L listowner (David Carlson at Texas A&M) is currently in Guatemala. Can someone tell me what is happening? Anita Cohen-Williams; Reference Services; Hayden Library Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 PHONE: (602) 965-4579 FAX: (602) 965-9169 INTERNET: [log in to unmask] Owner: HISTARCH *** Forwarding note from PAUL__GR--CMSNAMES 07/23/94 08:59 *** Return-Path: <@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU:[log in to unmask]> Received: from ASUACAD (NJE origin SMTP@ASUACAD) by ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 4477; Sat, 23 Jul 1994 08:59:30 -0700 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com by ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Sat, 23 Jul 94 08:59:29 MST Received: from hobo.corp.portal.com (hobo.corp.portal.com [156.151.1.14]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.7/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA00639 for <[log in to unmask]>; Sat, 23 Jul 1994 09:01:25 -0700 From: [log in to unmask] Received: from localhost (pccop@localhost) by hobo.corp.portal.com (8.6.4/1.53) id JAA27078 for [log in to unmask]; Sat, 23 Jul 1994 09:01:23 -0700 To: Anita Cohen-Williams <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Your request to sign off the ARCH-L list Lines: 97 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 09:01:23 PDT Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> X-Origin: The Portal System (TM) Here ya go! I'm getting 200 of these a day! >Sat, 23 Jul 1994 00:50:18 > >No entry for your [log in to unmask] address could be found in th e >ARCH-L list at TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU. Here are a number of possible reasons why yo u >might still be getting mail from the list: > >1. You could be subscribed under a different, but equivalent address. Fo r >instance, if your e-mail address as it appears in the 'From:' line of message s >coming from you has the misfortune of depending on the distance between you r >workstation and the terminal room door, you were probably subscribed from a >different address and, while your mail system knows that the two addresses ar e >equivalent, LISTSERV has no way to know that. In this case the only thing yo u >can do, beyond contacting the list owner, is to send a "REVIEW ARCH-L" comman d >to find out under what address you are subscribed, and try to duplicate it wit h >the help of your user support people. > >2. If you are a BITNET user, you might be subscribed under your Interne t >address and sending this command via BITNET, or vice versa. Most BITNET site s >have registered their Internet addresses in the BITNET nodes database, BITEAR N >NODES (the "tag" containing this information is called ':internet' - if you d o >not understand any of this, just bring a copy of this message to your use r >support people). Unfortunately, some sites have still not done that, and i n >such cases LISTSERV has no way to determine that, for instance, BITNET nod e >XYZCOL1 is the same as Internet host VM3.XYZ.EDU. If you suspect this might b e >your problem, try resending your request via both interactive message (SEN D >under VMS, TELL under VM) and e-mail. > >3. You might be subscribed under an equivalent yet different address - fo r >instance, one with explicit gatewaying, or an X.400 address with differen t >ordering of the various components, etc. You could send a "REVIEW ARCH-L " >command and inspect the list membership to find out whether this is the case , >and ask the list owners to remove that address from the list. > >4. You could be subscribed to the list under another account, from which mai l >is being automatically forwarded to your [log in to unmask] M >account. In that case you should be able to leave the list by resending th e >signoff request from the account in question. > >5. You could be subscribed to the list indirectly, via a "redistribution" list