>When I try to un-subscribe from this list using the same address that I used
>to subscribe, I'm told that can't because I'm not subscribed. Nevertheless,
>LSTOWN mail keeps rolling in relentlessly.
>Please advise.
Do you follow the advice in the generated nastygram?
Also, try a
UNSUB LSTOWN-L (GLOBAL
BTW, you might want to inspect the headers of this mail
message to see the routing to you -- sometimes there
is a clue in there. (BTW some folks use the term
subscribe for when they have included a Usenet group
in their news-reader configuration.)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 10:30:43 -0500
From: "L-Soft list server at Penn State (1.8c)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Your request to sign off the xxx-L list
To: [log in to unmask]
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Sat, 22 Feb 1997 10:30:43
No entry for your [log in to unmask] address could be found in the xxx-L
list at PSUVM.PSU.EDU. Here are a number of possible reasons why you
might still be getting mail from the list:
1. You could be subscribed under a different, but equivalent address. For
instance, if your e-mail address as it appears in the 'From:' line of
messages coming from you has the misfortune of depending on the distance
between your workstation and the terminal room door, you were probably
subscribed from a different address and, while your mail system knows
that the two addresses are equivalent, LISTSERV has no way to know that.
In this case the only thing you can do, beyond contacting the list owner,
is to send a "REVIEW xxx-L" command to find out under what address you
are subscribed, and try to duplicate it with the help of your user
support people.
2. If you are a BITNET user, you might be subscribed under your Internet
address and sending this command via BITNET, or vice versa. Most BITNET
sites have registered their Internet addresses in the BITNET nodes
database, BITEARN NODES (the "tag" containing this information is called
':internet' - if you do not understand any of this, just bring a copy of
this message to your user support people). Unfortunately, some sites have
still not done that, and in such cases LISTSERV has no way to determine
that, for instance, BITNET node XYZCOL1 is the same as Internet host
VM3.XYZ.EDU. If you suspect this might be your problem, try resending
your request via both interactive message (SEND under VMS, TELL under VM)
and e-mail.
3. You might be subscribed under an equivalent yet different address -
for instance, one with explicit gatewaying, or an X.400 address with
different ordering of the various components, etc. You could send a
"REVIEW xxx-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
mail is being automatically forwarded to your [log in to unmask] account.
In that case you should be able to leave the list by resending the
signoff request from the account in question.
5. You could be subscribed to the list indirectly, via a "redistribution"
list. That is, one of the subscribers to the LISTSERV list is in fact a
mailing list, to which you are yourself subscribed (note that this
"sub-list" is not necessarily managed by LISTSERV and, in fact, such
lists are often manually maintained, in which case the only way to leave
the list is to contact the person who maintains it). Since you are not
directly subscribed to xxx-L, the only way for you to stop getting the
postings is to contact the administrators of this sub-list and ask them
to sign you off.
You should be able to contact the list owners by simply replying to this
message (if you do not know how to reply to a message in your mailbox,
you can send a new message to [log in to unmask] instead).
-- co-owner: INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L
URL:mailto:[log in to unmask] "Are you a bandwidth bandit?"
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