Mail filtering will not help with hotmail as you are still forced to download all the unwanted messages and no I do not want to change my email address, that would stuff up a lot of other things, this problem should be fixed at the listserver end, when we signed up for the list it was under the understanding that we could unsubscribe at any time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregor Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 5:24 AM Subject: List Unsubscribing > > [Subject changed to be more appropriate] > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Matt, Nic and Wilf wrote: > > > A way to get off this list... > > Well, as a one-time list manager, I managed to contact Michael Polak on > his cell phone this morning to tell him that there is a problem > unsubscribing to this list. He is in Prague, but says he is very busy. > Perhaps now he will look into this. > > An alternative: contact your ISP and see if there is a way to dump all > mail from this list into /dev/null. If they are using a Unix sytem of some > sort, this would simply involve editing .procmailrc in your home > directory...in other words, do it yourself by getting some sort of mail > filtering in place. > > HTH > > Gregor Jones > Boston, MA >
