- From: <listmaster@www0.cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:11:45 +0100
- To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, www-announce@www0.cern.ch, www-html@www0.cern.ch, www-proxy@www0.cern.ch, www-rdb@www0.cern.ch
Some people have found difficulties unsubscribing from
a mailing list, or changing their email address. To improve the quality
of this service, we changed some rules, thanks to your comments.
An X-Comment line has been added to summarize how to sign off a list.
I will describe only the functions that have been modified. You
can get the complete documentation by sending mail to
listproc@info.cern.ch with the body:
HELP
subscribe <mailing-list> [-e email] [-p password] <your name>
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Will subscribe you to a list. The -e option allows you to
select another email to receive messages than the one
you are sending your email from. The -p option
allows you to use a password.
Example:
subscribe www-proxy -e zorro@horse.org Zorro
subscribe www-talk -p Barbara Bill C.
As this modified version of ListProcessor allows very easy
unsubscriptions, you may wish to use a password.
I think the use of the password will be better explained
in a table:
Let us suppose you want to remove your entry A from
a mailing list, and you're sending your email from
an address B
+-------------+---------------+
| No password | Password |
+-----------------------+-------------+---------------+
| A and B are different | A removed | A not removed |
+-----------------------+-------------+---------------+
| A is the same as B | A removed | A removed |
+-----------------------+-------------+---------------+
Note that in any case a warning message will be sent to A and B.
PASSWORD <mailing-list> [-e email] [-p previous_password] <-n new_password>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you wish to set a password later.
examples:
PASSWORD www-talk -n BIGBARBE
PASSWORD www-html -e barbiche@info.cern.ch -p BARBICHE -n BIGBARBE
UNSUBSCRIBE <mailing-list> [-e email] [-p password]
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To unsubscribe!
examples:
UNSUBSCRIBE WWW-TALK -e zoulou@info.cern.ch -p ZOUZOU
REVIEW <mailing-list>
RECIPIENTS <mailing-list>
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If you don't know under which email you are subscribed, this will
give you the list of all subscribers to this mailing-list that are
not concealed. To get concealed, the command is
"set <mailing-list> conceal yes".
CHANGE <mailing-list> [-e previous_email] <-n new-email> [-p password]
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To change the mail under which you are subscribed.
examples:
CHANGE WWW-TALK -e barbiche@info.cern.ch -n bigbarbe@info.cern.ch -p BARB
CHANGE WWW-ANNOUNCE -n zoulou@www.info.cern.ch
(In the last example, the program will take your email from your mail
headers)
Thank you,
Arthur Secret (listmaster@info.cern.ch)
Received on Wednesday, 9 November 1994 14:11:45 UTC