Re: Unsubscribe me..

[Peter Prymmer]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Larry Jones wrote:

> Raghu Nair writes:
> > 
> > Any body know how I can unsubscribe from the list..
> 
> Go to <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/> and click on the list you
> want to unsubscribe from.  Enter your email address in the box at the
> bottom of the page and click "Edit Options".  You'll almost certainly

Unfortunately entering "Edit Options" requires having valid
authentication.  Hence this recommendation is unworkable.

> then have to click on "Email My Password To Me" -- all of the GNU
> mailing lists were recently moved to new software (mailman) and they
> apparently just generated random passwords for all of the existing
> subscribers.  Once you've got your password, you can enter it and click
> "Unsubscribe".

You apparently cannot get your password emailed to you without having a
valid password.

Ordinarily Mailman will send out passwords about once a month but the
installation at GNU is misconfigured and does not do so.  Folks are
trapped on this list and do want to leave.

Peter Prymmer