How To Unsubscribe From This List

[Adam Glatt]

If someone who wants to subscribe doesn't notice instructions on how to 
do so at the bottom of 75% of the discussion group emails they get (and 
indeed repeated four times in this email), they won't notice anything else.

Nik Middleton wrote:

>Sadly, the mailing list software is not too clever in that area.  In other
>words, I cannot block HTML.  FAQ may well be the best bet, either that or
>have a script that just prompts for an email address.  But why would anyone
>want to leave anyway ;~}
>
>rgds
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
>[mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of David Harmon
>Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:55 AM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: RE: How To Unsubscribe From This List
>
>
>The unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of every TEXT email but
>not email sent in HTML. Perhaps HTML should be blocked.
>
>Regards
>
>Dave Harmon
>NSRCA 586
>K6XYZ at comcast.net
>Torrance, Ca.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
>On Behalf Of Martin X. Moleski, SJ
>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:43 PM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: How To Unsubscribe From This List
>
>Nice work on the unsubscribe instructions, Steve.
>
>It oughta be a FAQ on the web site.
>
>Then all we have to do is give the URL to the
>FAQ.
>
>						Marty #2874
>
>
>--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:23 PM -0800 RC Steve Sterling
><rcsteve at tcrcm.org> wrote:
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>>Having seen a number of people trying to unsubscribe from this list,
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>its
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>>time again to pass on the process-- if you want to unsubscribe--
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>Please
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>>Follow Carefully--
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>>To unsubscribe, a command email message is sent to a computer, not to
>>humans. Its a very stupid computer, and only accepts commands when
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>done
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>>precisely.
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>>a) sent the message to discussion-request at nsrca.org (not
>>discussion at nsrca.org). This is the address of the command computer.
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>>b) send it in plain text format, not html. With Outlook, plain text is
>>chosen under the Format menu item when you write the message. The
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>command
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>>computer will not respond to formatted messages.
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>>c) put the words "leave discussion" (no quotes- just those two words)
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>on the
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>>first line of the body.
>>It MUST be the body of the email, not the subject line or somewhere
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>else.
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>>The first line, not the second, or third, etc. Not the word
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>"Unsubscribe",
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>>it must be the two words "leave discussion". No caps, no extra
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>characters or
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>>words, nothing in the subject. The computer does not understand the
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>word
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>>"please". You are giving orders to a very stupid computer program, not
>>humans. If everything isn't perfect, it doesn't understand.
>>
>>Hope this helps. Its a very picky system.
>>
>>=====================================
>># To be removed from this list, send a message to
>># discussion-request at nsrca.org
>># and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
>>#
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># To be removed from this list, send a message to
># discussion-request at nsrca.org
># and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
>#
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># To be removed from this list, send a message to
># discussion-request at nsrca.org
># and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
>#
>
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># To be removed from this list, send a message to 
># discussion-request at nsrca.org
># and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
>#
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# and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
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