On Thu, 2 May 2002, Dave North wrote: > I've sent an email to the list owner, but no reply yet. It seems > the unsubscribe function isn't working. Can anyone here help out? [ ... ]
I haven't been very active on the tomcat-user list for a while, but I do recall that the list "owner" (if there ever even really was one, i.e. a human one) was not very responsive -- I sent mail to them a number of times, and I don't think I ever got a response. Regarding unsubscribing, I think the biggest problem (but not necessarily the only one) has to do with trying to unsubscribe from a different address than the one you're subscribed as. That is, when you subscribed, it was as a certain address -- if you didn't explicitly set it, it was from wherever you sent the subscribe message. But perhaps because of moves, address changes, machine changes, etc., you are no longer at that address (but because of forwards/aliases, you still receive mail sent to that address). So, if you try the simple unsubscribe method (i.e. without specifying an address), the address you send it from won't match the subscribed address, and the list won't accept it. The simple unsubscribe method is to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick is to tell it what address you are subscribed as when you try to unsubscribe. Of course, you have to know what address you are subscribed as before you can do that. The way to find that out is to look for a header on a message from the list that contains that information. On my setup (using Pine on a UNIX system), I can look at the "From " line (not "From:") or the "Return-Path:" line. There'll I'll see something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The "18383" is the message number, and the "mepstein=uiuc.edu" is the address I'm subscribed as (with the "@" changed to a "="). Now that you have that info, you can include it with your unsubscribe request. To do that, instead of sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where "name=domain.com" (or rather "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") is the subscribed address. BTW, the necessary header info to get your subscribed address is available with Outlook -- you may have to click in a certain place and/or set some options, but it is there, it's been mentioned on the list before. Hope this helps. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Systems and Technology Services (STS) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
