[svlug] Unsubscribing

[Marc MERLIN]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:03:00PM -0700, hartr at redhat.com wrote:
> Well
> 
> Many thanks to everyone who replied to my previous message - but I am
> still losing the battle with mailman. It appears I need a password in
> order to unsubscribe - and yet I have no recollection of ever providing
> a password when I subscribed about 2 years ago (was the SVLUG using
> mailman then?)
 
When the list was switched to mailman, I believe Michael (the list admin)
announced the change. 
 
I looked into it, but:
svlug:/var/local/mailman/bin# ./list_members svlug | grep hart
hartmann at web.de
derhart at quicknet.net
svlug:/var/local/mailman/bin# ./list_members svlug-announce | grep hart
derhart at quicknet.net
svlug:/var/local/mailman/bin# ./list_members svlug-announce | grep redhat
svlug:/var/local/mailman/bin# ./list_members svlug | grep redhat 
rjray at redhat.com
mgalgoci at redhat.com

I'm assuming you finally managed to unsubscribe yourself.

That  said,  you   would  have  gotten  a  response  much   quicker  if  you
had   Emailed  the   right  people,   i.e.  svlug-admin at lists.svlug.org   or
mailman-owner at svlug.org
(it turns  out that Michael  doesn't have time  to read the  list. Myself, I
read it when I have time, which is  sometimes not often (I'll even go as far
as posting without having caught up my backlog sometimes :-D))


So
#1 - don't complain on the list, complain to the listmaster
     If you did Email the listmaster and you didn't get an answer (shouldn't
     happen, but we all make mistakes), complain to officers at svlug.org

#2 - for other people: don't Email me or any other person in particular,
     some of us are _really_ busy and may answer you much later (sometimes
     several weeks as far as I am concerned).
     Officers -> officers at svlug.org
     Mailman/lists -> mailman-owner at svlug.org
     Web -> web-team at svlug.org (webmaster points there too)

     You shouldn't have to track who's in  charge of what at any moment, the
     aliases should do that work for you :-)

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:05:58PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> echo 'svlug at svlug.org 551 I can't seem to unsubscribe, so please make 
> it happen' >> /etc/mail/access ; makemap hash < /etc/mail/access 
> /etc/mail/access

Thank you for your helpful suggestions as always. How about suggesting to
contact the listmaster first next time?

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:08:11PM -0700, hartr at redhat.com wrote:
> On 14 Aug, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > I just tested this capability and got a response in about a minute (possibly
> > in seconds; I wasn't tracking it that closely). Maybe they're out to get you?
> 
> Possibly :-)
> 
> I have requested mailman to email me my password TWICE now using the
> svlug web page - and still no response...this is getting ridiculous!
 
You  probably typed  the wrong  Email address  or you  have some  other mail
problem. Mailman password send feature seems to work fine for everyone else.
 
> If someone from the SVLUG tech team is listening, please could you
> check this out...
 
That wasn't really the right place to ask, but we finally got to your Email
:-)
 
Marc
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