To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 12:06:37 -0700 Subject: Re: How to unsubscribe Message-ID: <20000708.124958.-589667.1.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-6,8-9,11-13,15,17-21,23-59 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From the depths of my cluttered mind, somewhere in the obscure past: If I remember correctly, the way to get off this mailing list was to send a message with "unsubsubscribe opendos" in the body of the message. Of course that was some time ago when there were 'nine' lists and you had to subscribe and unsubscribe for each of the lists seperately. There was also a format to tell the server to give information on all of the lists available. I assume you can still go to delorie.com and find that info in the archives, which I haven't visited in too long a time. Hope this helps those of you who have small mailboxes and don't have time to transfer e-mail to your local hard disk and/or don't have time to read all of the jillion messages we generate here. Actually, I think we have had more traffic in the last week than we used to have in a month. However, If noone asks for help, and noone offers any, we will never have much traffic and many people will get disgusted and think DOS is dinosaur, lost in time and they will go on to ngu-linux or fall back to (expletive deleted) gates-windows. When all the knowledge is owned by a few, the many are deprived and wander aimlessly in search of who knows what. PEACE! Bob 'DOMAN' Moss "Start your day with Chocolate - MMMM-Good" On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:24:40 -0400 DJ Delorie writes: > > > Is there a way to get this list in digest format? > > There used to be *nine* opendos lists on my machine, but they were > averaging a *total* of one message a week, so I collapsed them into > one list. I didn't think there was much point in having a digest > list > when 99% of the digest messages would consist of one (or no) > messages. > > > Otherwise, I want to unsubscribe because I don't need a zillion > > messages in my e-mail box every time I open it. > > You must open your email only once a year to see that effect! > > > I tried unsubscribing as per the instructions in the "Welcome" > > e-mail, but it came back saying it couldn't be processed and gave > me > > instructions on how to subscribe, but NOT unsubscribe. > > Sigh. Someone created a group at egroups, and subscribed > opendos AT delorie DOT com to it, and egroups sent the welcome message to > the > subscriber - opendos AT delorie DOT com. This was the wrong way to do it. > They should only have subscribed egroups to my list, not the other > way > around. If it isn't already fixed, I'll fix it from here by banning > email from egroups. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.