I have been trying to Unsubscribe too with no luck.
thanks for any information you have.
Jen
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>From: David Williams <dwilliam@apu.edu>
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Changing your address
>Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2000, 8:58 PM
>
> Hi Bruce,
> Anyway I can UNSUBSCRIBE to the listserv? I've done it the normal way,
> blank subject line with unsubscribe written in, but no such luck, I'm still
> receiving mail. I'm in a doctoral program at Pepperdine and many of us are
> having problems subscribing, thanks to Peggy I was able to join but now
> wish to be removed from the list...can you help? Please email me with your
> response.
>
> Thank you...
>
> DW
>
> Bruce Jones wrote:
>
>> I'm getting messages from a number of folks who suddenly find that
>> their mail to the xmca mailing list is not longer being sent to
>> the list - it just disappears into the ether.
>>
>> In every one of these cases, the problem has arisen because the
>> sender's address has changed. Usually this is not apparent to the
>> sender because, as far as they are concerned, nothing has changed
>> because they still get their mail.
>>
>> Here's an example:
>>
>> Joe Bar at the Univ. of Alta California tells folks his email
>> address is jbar@acu.edu
>>
>> While his To address simply reads acu.edu, he reads mail at and
>> and sends mail from a machine called faculty.acu.edu - so the header
>> >From line reads jbar@faculty.acu.edu
>>
>> That's the address that xmca recognizes, not jbar@acu.edu
>>
>> Now, somewhere along the line, for whatever reason (and there are
>> good reasons that I could explain to the curious), the network
>> system administrators at UAC, decide to route all incoming and
>> outgoing mail through a machine called mail.acu.edu
>>
>> This means that the From line in the header from Joe's mail has
>> now changed and reads jbar@mail.acu.edu instead of jbar@faculty.acu.edu
>>
>> The xmca listserv software is not going to recognize that address
>> and mail from Joe is now not going to go out to the rest of you.
>>
>> Joe, and you, can troubleshoot this by sending yourself a message
>> and looking to see who it comes from. If your address has changed,
>> send mail to bjones@ucsd.edu (which is really a pointer to
>> bjones@weber.ucsd.edu) and I'll fix things.
>>
>> onward!
>>
>> Bruce Jones Media Center/Communication #135
>> Webmeister & Resident Nerd Department of Communication
>> bjones@ucsd.edu University of California, San Diego
>> (858) 534-0417/4410 9500 Gilman Drive
>> FAX (858) 534-7315 La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0503
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