[6489] in java-interest
Re: Your request to sign off the JAVA-INTEREST list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cay Horstmann)
Sun Mar 31 21:51:21 1996
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:10:40 -0800
Reply-To: Java Interest <JAVA-INTEREST@JAVASOFT.COM>
From: Cay Horstmann <horstman@JUPITER.SJSU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list JAVA-INTEREST
<JAVA-INTEREST@JAVASOFT.COM>
Ok, could a real person please do something about this?
There were no instructions how to do send a "REVIEW JAVA-INTEREST" command,
or, more importantly, what to do with the results. Thanks though for the
tip what to do if I don't know how to reply to an email message.
Indeed my mailing address might have been anything matching the pattern
horstman[n]?@*.sjsu.edu, which is unique in our organization. Please remove
any of those occurrences. Since I am getting every message at least twice,
there are probably duplicate entries (or the mailing list software is
completely FUBAR).
Let me also say that I think this mailing list was a stupid idea in the
first place and has gotten to the point of self-destruction. I joined,
reluctantly, when Arthur van Hoff told me in no uncertain terms that the
Java group wasn't about to join the hoi polloi on comp.lang.java--they only
read the mailing list. Clearly a moderated news group is a better
distribution channel for this information.
Cay
horstman@cs.sjsu.edu
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From: L-Soft list server at JavaSoft (1.8b)[SMTP:LISTSERV@JAVASOFT.COM]
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 1996 10:23 PM
To: horstman@jupiter.SJSU.EDU
Subject: Your request to sign off the JAVA-INTEREST list
Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:23:02
No entry for your horstman@JUPITER.SJSU.EDU address could be found in the
JAVA-INTEREST list at JAVASOFT.COM. Here are a number of possible reasons
why you might still be getting mail from the list:
1. You could be subscribed under a different, but equivalent address. For
instance, if your e-mail address as it appears in the 'From:' line of
messages coming from you has the misfortune of depending on the distance
between your workstation and the terminal room door, you were probably
subscribed from a different address and, while your mail system knows
that the two addresses are equivalent, LISTSERV has no way to know that.
In this case the only thing you can do, beyond contacting the list owner,
is to send a "REVIEW JAVA-INTEREST" command to find out under what
address you are subscribed, and try to duplicate it with the help of your
user support people.
2. If you are a BITNET user, you might be subscribed under your Internet
address and sending this command via BITNET, or vice versa. Most BITNET
sites have registered their Internet addresses in the BITNET nodes
database, BITEARN NODES (the "tag" containing this information is called
':internet' - if you do not understand any of this, just bring a copy of
this message to your user support people). Unfortunately, some sites have
still not done that, and in such cases LISTSERV has no way to determine
that, for instance, BITNET node XYZCOL1 is the same as Internet host
VM3.XYZ.EDU. If you suspect this might be your problem, try resending
your request via both interactive message (SEND under VMS, TELL under VM)
and e-mail.
3. You might be subscribed under an equivalent yet different address -
for instance, one with explicit gatewaying, or an X.400 address with
different ordering of the various components, etc. You could send a
"REVIEW JAVA-INTEREST" command and inspect the list membership to find
out whether this is the case, and ask the list owners to remove that
address from the list.
4. You could be subscribed to the list under another account, from which
mail is being automatically forwarded to your horstman@JUPITER.SJSU.EDU
account. In that case you should be able to leave the list by resending
the signoff request from the account in question.
5. You could be subscribed to the list indirectly, via a "redistribution"
list. That is, one of the subscribers to the LISTSERV list is in fact a
mailing list, to which you are yourself subscribed (note that this
"sub-list" is not necessarily managed by LISTSERV and, in fact, such
lists are often manually maintained, in which case the only way to leave
the list is to contact the person who maintains it). Since you are not
directly subscribed to JAVA-INTEREST, the only way for you to stop
getting the postings is to contact the administrator of this sub-list and
ask him to sign you off.
You should be able to contact the list owners by simply replying to this
message (if you do not know how to reply to a message in your mailbox,
you can send a new message to 'JAVA-INTEREST-Request@JAVASOFT.COM'
instead).
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