Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!bu-cs!bucsb!bucsf!jbw From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: unsubscribe me pPLEEEEZE......... Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 89 02:55:15 GMT References: <21732@adm.BRL.MIL> <504@escom.com> Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 35 In-reply-to: al@escom.com's message of 13 Dec 89 16:03:22 GMT In article <504@escom.com> al@escom.com (Al Donaldson) writes: In article <21732@adm.BRL.MIL>, grant@panhed writes: > Nothinmg seems to work!! > UNSUB GRANT UNIX-WIZ That's funny, I tried "UNSUB GRANT CHEEZ-WHIZ" and it worked GREAT! Maybe you were in the wrong group.. Seriously, can't the mailing list folks do something about not echoing these subscription/unsubscription requests back to Usenet? Maybe education, nah... The problem appears to be the result of confusion between BITNET and Internet mailing lists. Most BITNET mailing lists are managed by a program called listserv (bitserv?) that is reachable by the address listserv@machine. To subscribe/unsubscribe, you send mail to listserv@machine. To send mail to the list, you send mail to list-name@machine instead. Internet mailing lists are usually maintained by humans. To subscribe/ unsubscribe to a list, you send mail to list-name-request@machine. To send mail to the list, you send mail to list-name@machine. It's actually sort of humorous. On BITNET lists, you get a lot of "Please unsubscribe me from this list" messages, while on Internet lists (and gatewayed newsgroups), you get a lot of "UNSUB LIST-L Firstname Lastname" messages. Oh well, maybe someday everyone will figure it out ... -- Joe Wells jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw