RE: Can u help me how to unsubscribe

["Dennis McCunney" <dmccunney at nyc dot rr dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Michael A Chase
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: manav.ahuja@wipro.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Can u help me how to unsubscribe
>
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:55:19 +0530 Manav Ahuja
> <manav.ahuja@wipro.com> wrote:
>
> > i want unsubsribe from the list ...
> >
> > plz can anybody help

> I doubt this will do much good since you didn't read the
> responses to the last person who sent such a request to the
> list, but if you visit (http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple)
> and follow the instructions given there you should be able to
> unsubscribe from this list.

He may be using Microsoft Outlook as an email client.

I just went through all sorts of contortions trying to unsubscribe from the
list under one email address and re-subscribe using another.

Outlook does _not_ like To: addresses of the form expected by the full
Unsubscribe function.  Things like
"foobaz-unsubscribe-eagerstudent=uni.edu@sources.redhat.com" get chopped at
the = sign, leaving "foobaz-unsubscribe-eagerstudent=" as the address.  I
forget exactly what the problem was with the simple unsubscribe function,
but I had issues with it, too.  (And to add to the confusion, both email
addresses are still valid: one is for my DSL line, and the other is for my
cable modem account.  So I had fun insuring that the messages and
confirmations were sent from the correct account, as both are known to
Outlook and checked during a mail run.)

Switching to a different email client wasn't a convenient option for me, and
I doubt I'm the only one in that position.

The issue may not be cluelessness on the part of the user.  If it is
possible to add a web form accessable to a browser to accomplish the same
end, that might help a great deal.

> --
> Mac :})
______
Dennis



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