@Tom, That's an interesting theory. I agree that remailers can present problems. It doesn't seem to be a sure thing.
I have always used a remailer. orcmid@ apache.org is one. dennis.hamilton@ acm.org is another. (And orcmid@ computer.org, but I haven't been using that.) I have never had any problem subscribing or unsubscribing. Note that when I subscribe with one of these, all I do is use an account that uses that e-mail address as the "From:". I have had accounts that did not allow me to send as my forwarder account e-mail. At the moment, it seems to be working. It may be that the barrier on your end is verizon.net, not the list. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Tom Panfil [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 12:09 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Catch 22 for Users of Remailers who Need to Unsubscribe [was: Re: PLEASE REMOVE ME] Hello Moderators & List Members: I think that there is a need for some additional way for people to unsubscribe from the lists mechanized via instances of the system used by this list. People like me, who are members of professional societies like IEEE and ACM which provide e-mail virus scanning and forwarding to the actual ISP provided e-mail accounts of their members, tend to use those re-mailer accounts for everything to get the two benefits: * Protection from viruses (to some degree). * Easy redirection of all of their incoming mail to a new ISP provided e-mail account if they should need to make a change. The Catch-22 part of this is that they cannot send from those re-mailer addresses, like my Reply-To address on this message. So, should they need or want to unsubscribe from a list via the mechanisms currently offered, they cannot unsubscribe. I do *not* want to unsubscribe. I'm learning from both the technical questions being answered, and from seeing this terrible problem linger on. The Open Source Community which uses the mail list exploder that this project uses should prioritize enhancement of the mail list exploder SW to enable unsubscribing by those who are subscribed via re-mailer addresses. This may help others too. -- *v/r, Tom Panfil eBureaucrat (Ret.) ******************************************** Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers to identify their corporate sponsors* <SNIP> > ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
