Bill,
I suspect it was just an oversight that Gary Hannan wanted off of Plant-ed
and you posted instructions for the PLANT-L listserve... We all need a
spring break!! (For those who may not know, PLANT-L is a listserve for
Plant Physiologists at primarily undergraduate institutions.)
As one of the Plant-ed "discussion leaders", I try to handle questions like
Gary's privately so as not to fill up the archives. Others do not need to
reply to subscription messages. Since Gary's situation may not be that
uncommon, here is a copy of what I sent to him this morning:
[snip]
Gary,
The address that BIOSCI has for you is: bio_hannan at emuvax.emich.edu
Is that the address you have attempted to uncubscribe from?
If so, then maybe there was a problem with the command:
Send the message:
unsubscribe plant-ed
end
to the address:
biosci-server at net.bio.net
If your address was changed, then you may be able to unsubscribe from the
old address with the help of an EMU computer systems administrator. If you
can't get them to help, I can send a message to BIOSCI to have them do it
by hand, but as busy as they are I try to avoid doing that... Let me know
(monroejd at jmu.edu) what happens or if I can be of any more help.
Jon
[snip]
Bill Williams replied to Gary Hannan's message:
>>I will be away for three months, so I need to remove myself for the
>>plant-ed list. I tried a couple times, but I obviously do not have the
>>correct procedure. Would someone let me know how to do it?
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Gary Hannan
>>Since others may have similar questions, below is an excerpt from what
>should have been sent to all when they subscribed:
>>You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF PLANT-L" command
>to LISTSERV at CRCVMS.UNL.EDU. You can also tell LISTSERV how you want it to
>confirm the receipt of messages you send to the list. If you do not trust
>the system, send a "SET PLANT-L REPRO" command and LISTSERV will send you
>a copy of your own messages, so that you can see that the message was
>distributed and did not get damaged on the way. After a while you may
>find that this is getting annoying, especially if your mail program does
>not tell you that the message is from you when it informs you that new
>mail has arrived from PLANT-L. If you send a "SET PLANT-L ACK NOREPRO"
>command, LISTSERV will mail you a short acknowledgement instead, which
>will look different in your mailbox directory. With most mail programs
>you will know immediately that this is an acknowledgement you can read
>later. Finally, you can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET
>PLANT-L NOACK NOREPRO".
>>Cheers,
>>-W2
>>________________________
>William E. Williams
>Biology Department, St. Mary's College of Maryland
>St. Mary's City, MD 20686 USA
>WEWilliams at osprey.smcm.edu>(301)862-0365
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