grant@panhed (12/13/89)
Nothinmg seems to work!! UNSUB GRANT UNIX-WIZ
al@escom.com (Al Donaldson) (12/14/89)
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... Al
jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (12/18/89)
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> jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw