Michael Adams [mailto:[email protected]] wondered:
> Under what situation does one have trouble getting off the list? In my > experience it is only lack of knowledge of how a mailing list works. I > am not blaming people for this lack of knowledge, after all it is a > newbie list, but i see no other situation in which this issue arises. Here's one. I was a long-time subscriber to another list, and then needed to change something, BUT my company had made a change in our e-mail system. My e-mail address went from being <firstinitial+familyname>@address.com to being <firstname.familyname>@address.com. They allowed a grace period of a couple of years, during which incoming mail to <firstinitial+familyname> was accepted along with the new address. But of course, you see the problem. Long before the two years was up (in fact the first day of the change) OUTGOING mail began coming from <firstname.familyname>@address.com. Thus, with the same e-mail account as I'd always had, I could no longer send unsubscribe or confirmation e-mails from my old self - the self that had originally subscribed... the self that would be recognized by the automated listserver. I lacked the skills to successfully spoof my sending address via Outlook, through Exchange Server, to the outside world. This actually affected several lists, but at the time, only one didn't have a web-based option or an easily reachable list-admin. Similar things happen when ISPs buy each other. Your incoming mail still gets to you, but your outgoing name/address might change to suit the format favored by the purchasing ISP. - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
