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Sent from my iPhone On Jul 21, 2013, at 12:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I've tried numerous times to unsubscribe and I'm not getting anywhere. > Please take me off, it's going into spam from now on. I really don't have time > for this! > > > > ____________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: 7/21/2013 12:07:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time > Subj: Majordomo results: (no subject) > > > -- > >>>>> unsubscribe alfa-digest.net > **** unsubscribe: unknown list 'alfa-digest.net'. > **** Help for [email protected]: > > > This help message is being sent to you from the Majordomo mailing list > management system at [email protected]. > > This is version 1.94.5 of Majordomo. > > If you're familiar with mail servers, an advanced user's summary of > Majordomo's commands appears at the end of this message. > > Majordomo is an automated system which allows users to subscribe > and unsubscribe to mailing lists, and to retrieve files from list > archives. > > You can interact with the Majordomo software by sending it commands > in the body of mail messages addressed to "[email protected]". > Please do not put your commands on the subject line; Majordomo does > not process commands in the subject line. > > You may put multiple Majordomo commands in the same mail message. > Put each command on a line by itself. > > If you use a "signature block" at the end of your mail, Majordomo may > mistakenly believe each line of your message is a command; you will > then receive spurious error messages. To keep this from happening, > either put a line starting with a hyphen ("-") before your signature, > or put a line with just the word > > end > > on it in the same place. This will stop the Majordomo software from > processing your signature as bad commands. > > Here are some of the things you can do using Majordomo: > > I. FINDING OUT WHICH LISTS ARE ON THIS SYSTEM > > To get a list of publicly-available mailing lists on this system, put the > following line in the body of your mail message to [email protected]: > > lists > > Each line will contain the name of a mailing list and a brief description > of the list. > > To get more information about a particular list, use the "info" command, > supplying the name of the list. For example, if the name of the list > about which you wish information is "demo-list", you would put the line > > info demo-list > > in the body of the mail message. > > II. SUBSCRIBING TO A LIST > > Once you've determined that you wish to subscribe to one or more lists on > this system, you can send commands to Majordomo to have it add you to the > list, so you can begin receiving mailings. > > To receive list mail at the address from which you're sending your mail, > simply say "subscribe" followed by the list's name: > > subscribe demo-list > > If for some reason you wish to have the mailings go to a different address > (a friend's address, a specific other system on which you have an account, > or an address which is more correct than the one that automatically > appears > in the "From:" header on the mail you send), you would add that address to > the command. For instance, if you're sending a request from your work > account, but wish to receive "demo-list" mail at your personal account > (for which we will use "[email protected]" as an example), you'd put > the line > > subscribe demo-list [email protected] > > in the mail message body. > > Based on configuration decisions made by the list owners, you may be added > to the mailing list automatically. You may also receive notification > that an authorization key is required for subscription. Another message > will be sent to the address to be subscribed (which may or may not be the > same as yours) containing the key, and directing the user to send a > command found in that message back to [email protected]. (This can be > a bit of extra hassle, but it helps keep you from being swamped in extra > email by someone who forged requests from your address.) You may also > get a message that your subscription is being forwarded to the list owner > for approval; some lists have waiting lists, or policies about who may > subscribe. If your request is forwarded for approval, the list owner > should contact you soon after your request. > > Upon subscribing, you should receive an introductory message, containing > list policies and features. Save this message for future reference; it > will also contain exact directions for unsubscribing. If you lose the > intro mail and would like another copy of the policies, send this message > to [email protected]: > > intro demo-list > > (substituting, of course, the real name of your list for "demo-list"). > > III. UNSUBSCRIBING FROM MAILING LISTS > > Your original intro message contains the exact command which should be > used to remove your address from the list. However, in most cases, you > may simply send the command "unsubscribe" followed by the list name: > > unsubscribe demo-list > > (This command may fail if your provider has changed the way your > address is shown in your mail.) > > To remove an address other than the one from which you're sending > the request, give that address in the command: > > unsubscribe demo-list [email protected] > > In either of these cases, you can tell [email protected] to remove > the address in question from all lists on this server by using "*" > in place of the list name: > > unsubscribe * > unsubscribe * [email protected] > > IV. FINDING THE LISTS TO WHICH AN ADDRESS IS SUBSCRIBED > > To find the lists to which your address is subscribed, send this command > in the body of a mail message to [email protected]: > > which > > You can look for other addresses, or parts of an address, by specifying > the text for which Majordomo should search. For instance, to find which > users at my-isp.com are subscribed to which lists, you might send the > command > > which my-isp.com > > Note that many list owners completely or fully disable the "which" > command, considering it a privacy violation. > > V. FINDING OUT WHO'S SUBSCRIBED TO A LIST > > To get a list of the addresses on a particular list, you may use the > "who" command, followed by the name of the list: > > who demo-list > > Note that many list owners allow only a list's subscribers to use the > "who" command, or disable it completely, believing it to be a privacy > violation. > > VI. RETRIEVING FILES FROM A LIST'S ARCHIVES > > Many list owners keep archives of files associated with a list. These > may include: > - back issues of the list > - help files, user profiles, and other documents associated with the list > - daily, monthly, or yearly archives for the list > > To find out if a list has any files associated with it, use the "index" > command: > > index demo-list > > If you see files in which you're interested, you may retrieve them by > using the "get" command and specifying the list name and archive filename. > For instance, to retrieve the files called "profile.form" (presumably a > form to fill out with your profile) and "demo-list.9611" (presumably the > messages posted to the list in November 1996), you would put the lines > > get demo-list profile.form > get demo-list demo-list.9611 > > in your mail to [email protected]. > > VII. GETTING MORE HELP > > To contact a human site manager, send mail to [email protected]. > To contact the owner of a specific list, send mail to that list's > approval address, which is formed by adding "-approval" to the user-name > portion of the list's address. For instance, to contact the list owner > for [email protected], you would send mail to > [email protected]. > > To get another copy of this help message, send mail to [email protected] > with a line saying > > help > > in the message body. > > VIII. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR ADVANCED USERS > > In the description below items contained in []'s are optional. When > providing the item, do not include the []'s around it. Items in angle > brackets, such as <address>, are meta-symbols that should be replaced > by appropriate text without the angle brackets. > > It understands the following commands: > > subscribe <list> [<address>] > Subscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) to the named <list>. > > unsubscribe <list> [<address>] > Unsubscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) from the named <list>. > "unsubscribe *" will remove you (or <address>) from all lists. This > _may not_ work if you have subscribed using multiple addresses. > > get <list> <filename> > Get a file related to <list>. > > index <list> > Return an index of files you can "get" for <list>. > > which [<address>] > Find out which lists you (or <address> if specified) are on. > > who <list> > Find out who is on the named <list>. > > info <list> > Retrieve the general introductory information for the named <list>. > > intro <list> > Retrieve the introductory message sent to new users. Non-subscribers > may not be able to retrieve this. > > lists > Show the lists served by this Majordomo server. > > help > Retrieve this message. > > end > Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature). > > Commands should be sent in the body of an email message to > "[email protected]". Multiple commands can be processed provided > each occurs on a separate line. > > Commands in the "Subject:" line are NOT processed. > > If you have any questions or problems, please contact > "[email protected]". > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
