chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) (02/18/90)
In article <22434@adm.BRL.MIL> Schwarz%UNCAMULT.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca (Erwin Schwarz) writes: >How does one get off this mailing list? I've been sending messages to >INFO-UNIX-REQUEST asking to be signed off but to no avail. I would >appretiate someone getting me off this list. Similar requests have appeared recently in UNIX-WIZARDS (comp.unix.wizards on USENET). The answer is: A. If you are on BITNET, you are probably not on the mailing list. Instead, you are probably on a local expansion or on a `LISTSERV' list somewhere. You must ask the person or program maintaining this list to take you off the list. In the case of the LISTSERV programs, sending mail to the fake user `LISTSERV' at the appropriate host with a special message header or content seems to be the approved method. B. If you are not on BITNET, you may still be on a local expansion. Again, you must ask the person or program maintaining this local expansion to remove you therefrom. Requests to the -request list will not help. C. If you are on the main list, send mail to the -request address and wait. Wait up to six months, or more, sometimes. The people who handle these lists sometimes acquire a large backlog. Most, however, try to handle requests within two weeks. D. If you are on any mailing list anywhere, try to convince your site to get USENET news instead, so that each person at your site can autonomously decide whether to subscribe to that list or not. Most Internet mailing lists are, and all mailing lists can be, transparently gatewayed to USENET news. NNTP is available for a large class of hosts. Exactly where you should look for NNTP software, I do not know. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris