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| From mit-eddie!tarnhelm.blu.org!blu.org!owner-discuss Sun Jan 12 03:46:49 1997 | Return-Path: <mit-eddie!tarnhelm.blu.org!blu.org!owner-discuss> | To: announce at tarnhelm.blu.ORG | Subject: Relocation of BLU mailing lists | Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 04:30:05 -0500 | From: John Abreau <jabr at tarnhelm.blu.ORG> | Reply-To: discuss at blu.ORG Just out of curiosity, I thought I'd look into how one would go about unsubscribing and then resubscribing with a different email address. This could be necessary when someone's email address changes (as happened to a lot of people with bcs.org addresses recently). The obvious thing to do is to send in an unsubscribe from the old email address, plus a subscribe from the new. I found that I couldn't do the unsubscribe, because there is no apparent way to tell what email address is used for me on the mailing list. In fact, the characters "jc" didn't even occur anywhere in the headers of several message I got recently via the linux-sig or the new discuss lists. The editor also couldn't find any of the machine names that are likely to be in whatever email address I may have sent in in the distant past ("minya" and "eddie" in my case). Presumably the majordomo software has some safeguards to prevent me from unsubscribing random other people; I'd guess that I'd have to send in an unsubscribe from an email address that passes some sort of minimal match against what's in majordomo's file. But there doesn't seem to be any clue in the messages as to what address they were actually sent (forwarded) to in my case. So would this have to be done by a real live human at your end? Or is there some way to ask majordomo what email address it has for me? Also, looking forward to the day that (as has happened before) my current email path stops working without warning: Is there a way that I could tell majordomo "My old address of jc at foo.bar.com is no longer valid, and should be replaced with jc at xyz.org"? (It's not obvious how this might be implemented in such a way that I couldn't similarly hijack other people's subscriptions by redirecting them to some poor unsuspecting soul over at aol.com, for instance. :-)
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