On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kwan, Kenneth Y wrote:
> May I suggest that if an unsubscribing mail is received with a
> different address, send the instructions on how to unsubscribe to
> the sender. I think this may help.
Well, it would be nice if it would give generic info along the lines
of "the address this was sent from is not recognzied" and how to find
the address that it knows and unsubscribe it. But I don't think it
can figure out what the proper address is, because it could be
anything, right?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:18 AM
> To: Tomcat User Mailing List
> Subject: ***** URGENT: UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THE TOMCAT-USER
> LIST *****
>
>
> Obviously a lot of people are having trouble unsubscribing from this
> list. Most likely these people have tried the simple/direct way of
> unsubscribing -- sending email to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -- without success. That's because that way only works if you send
> the unsubscribe request from the address you are subscribed from.
> But
> many people receive/send their email from a different address than
> the
> one they originally subscribed from.
>
> Some people (including me and others) have posted instructions on
> how
> to unsubscribe when faced with this situation. But it's not clear
> that the right people are seeing these messages (I guess you can't
> blame them too much, because they're probably not reading the
> messages
> too closely, because the whole point is they want to get off this
> list). But I'm going to make another attempt to post these
> instructions in the hope that it will help someone. I'll try to
> make
> the subject line such that even those people that are deleting
> everything from the list will stop and notice it (for the people
> that
> want to stay on the list, sorry about that :-).
>
> First of all, you need to find out what address tomcat-user thinks
> you're subscribed from. To do that, look at the headers of a
> message
> from the list, and you'll see something like:
>
> Return-Path:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The Return-Path header line includes the address tomcat-user thinks
> you're subscribed from -- with the "@" changed to a "=" to avoid
> having two "@"'s in the Return-Path. In this example, that's
> joe=domain.com, which translates to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Once you know that address, you can unsubscribe by sending email to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Voila!
>
> So, if you are having trouble unsubscribing, please give this a try.
>
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
