[svlug] Unsubscribing from SVLUG, Beginning user of linux

[Rick Moen]

<begin speaking as listadmin>

John, this would better have been sent either off-list or CCed to the
Volunteers mailing list:  Please do so with any follow-ups on this
topic.  (Sita and others, same applies to you, please.)  Administrivia
should _not_ in general be sent to any mailing lists, and particularly not to 
svlug at lists.svlug.org.  Instead, administrive queries/comments should be
sent to the appropriate -owner address, such as svlug-owner at lists.svlug.org.  
That's exactly what it says in every header of every posting.  (Exception:
If you wish to discuss or challenge an action I or any other listadmin 
take, you are always welcome to do so on the public Volunteers mailing
list.)  Please take that seriously.

<end of speaking as listadmin>


Quoting john_re (john_re at fastmail.us):

Hi, John.  Sorry to hear Sita's still having a problem.

> Hmm. That's weird. Here's the page to use:
> 
> http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug
>
> If you don't have your list password (so only you can access or
> unsubscribe from your account)
> 1) In the "svlug Subscribers" box enter your email address & click the
> "Unsubscribe or edit options" button.
> 2) click the "password reminder" button to have a copy of your password
> mailed to your account.
> 3) Receive your pw & use it starting from the same page above to unsubscribe.

That's exactly correct, John.

> > Sent another email to the webmaster, no reply there either.

It's extremely bizarre if indeed Sita did not receive my (immediate) reply
to her (unfortunately, rather difficult-to-understand) request for help late
on Tuesday, May 6.  Here it is again:

   Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:00:07 -0700
   From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
   To: sita_787 at hotmail.com
   Subject: Re: [Mailman-owner] SPAM: 6.0: (no subject)

   Quoting Sita Lazenby (sita_787 at hotmail.com):

   > I have tried several times to unsubscribe from this list but the system
   > says there is no such list. I have 57 deleted emails to prove
   > otherwise.

   Hi, Sita.  What list are you referring to as "this list"?  (You do not
   specify.)  Also, can you please provide one complete copy of a posting,
   with all headers intact?

In other words, Sita hadn't even bothered to say _anywhere_ which of
SVLUG's numerious mailing lists she was speaking of when she said "this
list".  So, I asked.  She never replied.

Thus, I was never (until now) in a position to give further assistance.
Fortunately, you've made my job easy by saying (as per your three steps,
above) exactly the same thing I would have told Sita.  Thanks, John!
                                                                                
Sita, John explained it exactly right!