> -----Original Message----- > From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 07:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] How do I unsubscribe? > > On 20/04/2008 09:36, zed wrote: > > Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> On 19/04/2008 23:40, zed wrote: > >> > >>> On the 15th, April I sent an unsubscribe request to > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the same again on the 16th. As I > >>> was still receiving messages, I repeatred today, the 20th April. > >>> > >>> If it doesn't work this time, what other steps can I take to > >>> unsubscribe from the mailing, list, please? > >>> > >>> Zed > >>> > >>> > >> Did you follow the instructions in the message that got sent back to > you > >> in response to your request? > >> > >> > > I didn't get a response to my unsubscribe email ;-9 > > > > Zed > > > > > Did you send the request from the subscribed address? You can't > [un]subscribe a different address from the one sending the request.
That can be fun when your company changes the format of employees' addresses - including changing it in the "Reply-to", but continues to accept mail that's addressed to the old format. You keep getting list-mail, but you can't post (your mail header now says that it's coming from an address that's not in the subscriber database) and you can't unsubscribe. You can re-subscribe with the new-format address, but now you've got double the volume of mail from a high-volume list pouring into your mailbox. So, you try to do the unsubscribing online. When you submit, the listserver sends a confirmation request to the old address. You respond, but you appear to be somebody else responding, which is exactly what the confirmation request is meant to trap... and you still can't unsubscribe the old version of your address. Argh!! Ask me how I know this. Eventually, you have to flag down a live body. Murphy's law says that when you try to do so, that'll be the week that the moderator/admin-bod is gone on vacation... Next thing, you find that there are no list-mails coming to your inbox, because you've been unsubscribed as both the old and the new versions of your address. I could go on. I did, actually. :-) The only thing worse than being in bureaucratic hell is being in automated bureaucratic hell. 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]
