I followed your exact poocedure when setting the list to nomail a while back, and I had no trouble. In addition to Sabahattin's comments, you might want to try setting the option via the Web (although e-mail is quicker), and see if that works.
>----- Original Message ----- >From: Diane Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: BrailleNote List <[email protected] >Sent: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:39:11 +1300 >Subject: [Braillenote] GOING NOMAIL >Hi, List! >I thought I would ask a question about going nomail on this list. On October >21st, I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] placing "set authenticate >(password) in the subject line with "set delivery off" in the message body. >When I checked on the 22nd, there was around 100 emails from this list, so I >tried again. On the 23rd, I looked and found another large amount of email >from this list, so I did the same command to stop delivery again. On November >3rd, I went in to look and make sure that there was no email and found over >1000 emails waiting for me. I gave up and left it alone till I could return >home and have Earthlink remove it, or drop it all to my laptop instead of my >BrailleNote like I usually do. I did try to drop it to my BN on the 3rd, but >it came up with the infamous winsock error 10057, so I stopped it and made my >decision to wait till I get home. >Can someone hazard a guess as to what may have happened? I am curious as to >what did I not do, or could have done, to stop the email from coming. Any >ideas? >Thanks for your input. > Diane Garrett/Leader Daisy >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Phone: (918) 664-5731 >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
