On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:27:44 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by McLauchlan, Kevin to my mailbox:
> 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. > This is a no brainer, explain the problem to the IT dept. and he/she would look after it for you. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
