> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:47 PM
> To: Alex Miller
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: info
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Alex Miller wrote:
> > It seems then that
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > is not the name you subscribed with.
> >
> > The message back from ezmlm should have said:
> >
> > Acknowledgment: I have removed the address
> >
> >    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > from this mailing list.
> >
> > NOT
> >
> > Acknowledgment: The address
> >
> >     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > is not on this mailing list.
> >
> > You must have been subscribed as:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > instead of
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > which you send and recieve mail from both.
> >
> > It would be nice, if for ezmlm there were the command:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Maybe that could be a cybergood open-source project to write.
>
> How is it supposed to know who you are, since we're assuming that
> the envelope
> sender address of the message you send to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> isn't the same as the address you're subscribed under?

Precisely. If such a command existed he could have used it.

It would work like this.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

the response in his case would have been.

You are [EMAIL PROTECTED], not a current member of this list.

That's just clearer than deduction from failure.

He'd still have to read the header but it could part of a proactive
procedure to unsubscribe.

>
> > Anyway, since there isn't an unsubscribe-name=host.domain command
>
> Certainly there is. If he knew what address he was subscribed
> under, he could
> send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> He can find out what address he's subscribed under by looking at
> the header of
> a message from the list. Here's the Return-Path from a message I
> received from
> this list:
>
> Return-Path:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> From this I know that I'm subscribed under the address
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I wanted to get off of the
> list I'd send a
> message to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd
> get the confirmation back, reply to it, and I'd be off.

Oh, I tried it last night before I sent him the message, as at test.
I subscribed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then I sent the command
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

It failed, saying:

<snip>

The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses.

<snip>

--- Here are the ezmlm command addresses.

I can handle administrative requests automatically.
Just send an empty note to any of these addresses:

   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
   Receive future messages sent to the mailing list.

   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
   Stop receiving messages.

   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
   Retrieve a copy of message 12345 from the archive.

DO NOT SEND ADMINISTRATIVE REQUESTS TO THE MAILING LIST!
If you do, I won't see them, and subscribers will yell at you.

To specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] as your subscription address, send mail
to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
I'll send a confirmation message to that address; when you receive that
message, simply reply to it to complete your subscription.

So, I took that to mean that although
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was allowed but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was not, since it wasn't
listed and it was rejected.

Of course it was rejected because of a misspelling, not because it is not
included in the command set.

>
> Chris
>

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