I can't unsubscribe, please help

ruby-talk
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Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me out with the unsubscribe process. I have sent (many times) an email to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org with "unsubscribe" and/or "# unsubscribe" in the body. Each time I get back this confirmation request (below). When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "# unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying that my email has no effective commands, etc.

And then I keep getting more emails from the mailing list.

I've also tried unsubscribing from Mailing Lists but all I get is a page that says "405 Not Allowed - nginx/0.7.67"

Thanks,
Matthew

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-----Original Message-----
From: ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org [mailto:ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:00 PM
To: Matthew Westerberg
Subject: Unsubscribe confirmation request

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 2013053003593820505777146523 matthew littlemountainengineering.ca

Please reply this mail to confirm your unsubscribe request and send this to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org If confirmed, you are removed from MAILING LIST <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>.

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 2013053003593820505777146523 matthew littlemountainengineering.ca

Please reply this mail to confirm your unsubscribe request and send this to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org If confirmed, you are removed from MAILING LIST <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>.

--ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org, Be Seeing You!

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      (here is the automatic reply, so more preferable)

e.g. on a Unix Machine
(shell prompt)% echo "help" |Mail ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org

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2

Have you tried replying with the quoted text of the confirmation request
still in your outgoing email? You seem to be saying you've replied with
a fresh email containing nothing, or nothing but the word "unsubscribe"
with or without a hash mark. I think you need specific parts of the
actual text of the confirmation request email in your reply.

Also . . . if you *have* replied that way, perhaps you're replying with
an HTML email and it's screwing up the ability of the system to read the
important parts of the reply. Make sure you're replying in plaintext.

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 05:48:43AM +0900, Matthew Westerberg wrote:

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me out with the unsubscribe process. I
have sent (many times) an email to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org with
"unsubscribe" and/or "# unsubscribe" in the body. Each time I get back
this confirmation request (below). When I reply to it (I've tried
replying with "unsubscribe", "# unsubscribe", and with nothing at all)
I get a lengthy email in reply saying that my email has no effective
commands, etc.

--
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

3

When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "# unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying that my email has no effective commands, etc.

Just reply as-is. Don't change the body at all. I just unsubscribed and resubscribed and it worked fine. My steps:

1. send "unsubscribe" in the body to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org from my subscribed email address.
2. get back an email for confirmation.
3. hit reply, hit send. It looked something like this:

blah blah

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 201305300736321631415926 ryand-ruby zenspider.com

blah blah

I didn't change the body at all. Do make sure that it too is sent from the subscribed address. (I use email address extensions to sort into mailboxes and track spammers... like Nicholas Meyler!)

4. Get a final response that you've been unsubscribed.

Extra data: I'm using osx's mail.app and sending/receiving plain text email. Your mail client should also be sending plain text email to ruby-talk-ctl@.

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On May 29, 2013, at 13:48 , Matthew Westerberg <matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca> wrote:

4

www.ruby-lang.org is undergoing some changes right now and the
form does not work at the moment. This is a known issue.

For the time being, you can only subscribe/unsubscribe manually.

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Am 29.05.2013 22:48, schrieb Matthew Westerberg:

I've also tried unsubscribing from
Mailing Lists but all I get is
a page that says "405 Not Allowed - nginx/0.7.67"

--
<https://github.com/stomar/&gt;

5

same problem here; expcet for thatI don't get anything in reply when I send the confirmatory unsubscribe mail, and the mailing list postings keep flooding up my inbox :frowning: .

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________________________________
From: Matthew Westerberg <>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:18 AM
Subject: I can't unsubscribe, please help

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me out with the unsubscribe process. I have sent (many times) an email to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org with "unsubscribe" and/or "# unsubscribe" in the body. Each time I get back this confirmation request (below). When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "# unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying that my email has no effective commands, etc.

And then I keep getting more emails from the mailing list.

I've also tried unsubscribing from Mailing Lists but all I get is a page that says "405 Not Allowed - nginx/0.7.67"

Thanks,
Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org [mailto:ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:00 PM
To: Matthew Westerberg
Subject: Unsubscribe confirmation request

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 2013053003593820505777146523 matthew littlemountainengineering.ca

Please reply this mail to confirm your unsubscribe request and send this to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org If confirmed, you are removed from MAILING LIST <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>.

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 2013053003593820505777146523 matthew littlemountainengineering.ca

Please reply this mail to confirm your unsubscribe request and send this to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org If confirmed, you are removed from MAILING LIST <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>.

--ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org, Be Seeing You!

************************************************************

   Help: &lt;mailto:ruby\-talk\-ctl@ruby\-lang\.org?body=help&gt;

Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org?body=unsubscribe>

If you have any questions or problems,
please contact ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org
or
send e-mail with the body "help"(without quotes) to
ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org
(here is the automatic reply, so more preferable)

e.g. on a Unix Machine
(shell prompt)% echo "help" |Mail ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org

************************************************************

6

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/

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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>wrote:

On May 29, 2013, at 13:48 , Matthew Westerberg < > matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca> wrote:

> When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "#
unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply
saying that my email has no effective commands, etc.

Just reply as-is. Don't change the body at all. I just unsubscribed and
resubscribed and it worked fine. My steps:

1. send "unsubscribe" in the body to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org from my
subscribed email address.
2. get back an email for confirmation.
3. hit reply, hit send. It looked something like this:

> blah blah

>

>>>> unsubscribe
> unsubscribe-confirm 201305300736321631415926 ryand-ruby zenspider.com
>
> blah blah

I didn't change the body at all. Do make sure that it too is sent from the
subscribed address. (I use email address extensions to sort into mailboxes
and track spammers... like Nicholas Meyler!)

4. Get a final response that you've been unsubscribed.

Extra data: I'm using osx's mail.app and sending/receiving plain text
email. Your mail client should also be sending plain text email to
ruby-talk-ctl@.

--
vizualize.me/cliffrosson

7

Thanks, Ryan. I think my issue might be that my email (Outlook) was sending HTML not plain text. I changed that but now I've got a different problem: I don't receive the confirmation email (Step 2 in your description below). And I'm not already unsubscribed because I keep on getting emails from the mailing list. I've since tried sending the initial unsubscribe request in both HTML and plain text and I don't receive any response. I've also tried responding (Step 3) in plain text to the original (Step 2) confirmation emails that I received (before asking for help) but nothing happens: not the final (Step 4) response or even the one I was originally getting about "no effective commands, blah, blah."

When I originally sent (multiple) unsubscribe requests, the server responded right away.

Any ideas why there is now no response at all?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Davis [mailto:ryand-ruby@zenspider.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:51 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

On May 29, 2013, at 13:48 , Matthew Westerberg <matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca> wrote:

When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "# unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying that my email has no effective commands, etc.

Just reply as-is. Don't change the body at all. I just unsubscribed and resubscribed and it worked fine. My steps:

1. send "unsubscribe" in the body to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org from my subscribed email address.
2. get back an email for confirmation.
3. hit reply, hit send. It looked something like this:

blah blah

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 201305300736321631415926 ryand-ruby zenspider.com

blah blah

I didn't change the body at all. Do make sure that it too is sent from the subscribed address. (I use email address extensions to sort into mailboxes and track spammers... like Nicholas Meyler!)

4. Get a final response that you've been unsubscribed.

Extra data: I'm using osx's mail.app and sending/receiving plain text email. Your mail client should also be sending plain text email to ruby-talk-ctl@.

8

I'm seeing the same problem.
Shane

Shyamal Krishna wrote in post #1111040:

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same problem here; expcet for thatI don't get anything in reply when I
send the confirmatory unsubscribe mail, and the mailing list postings
keep flooding up my inbox :frowning: .

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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.

9

Thank you.

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From: Cliff Rosson [mailto:cliff.rosson@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:59 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

On May 29, 2013, at 13:48 , Matthew Westerberg <matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca> wrote:

When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "#

unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying
that my email has no effective commands, etc.

Just reply as-is. Don't change the body at all. I just unsubscribed and
resubscribed and it worked fine. My steps:

1. send "unsubscribe" in the body to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org from my
subscribed email address.
2. get back an email for confirmation.
3. hit reply, hit send. It looked something like this:

blah blah

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 201305300736321631415926 ryand-ruby zenspider.com

blah blah

I didn't change the body at all. Do make sure that it too is sent from the
subscribed address. (I use email address extensions to sort into mailboxes
and track spammers... like Nicholas Meyler!)

4. Get a final response that you've been unsubscribed.

Extra data: I'm using osx's mail.app and sending/receiving plain text email.
Your mail client should also be sending plain text email to ruby-talk-ctl@.

--

vizualize.me/cliffrosson

10

Unfortunately, I have the problem, too. Clearly not a unique one.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Westerberg [mailto:matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:50 PM
To: ruby-talk ML; ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

Thanks, Ryan. I think my issue might be that my email (Outlook) was sending
HTML not plain text. I changed that but now I've got a different problem: I
don't receive the confirmation email (Step 2 in your description below). And
I'm not already unsubscribed because I keep on getting emails from the
mailing list. I've since tried sending the initial unsubscribe request in
both HTML and plain text and I don't receive any response. I've also tried
responding (Step 3) in plain text to the original (Step 2) confirmation
emails that I received (before asking for help) but nothing happens: not the
final (Step 4) response or even the one I was originally getting about "no
effective commands, blah, blah."

When I originally sent (multiple) unsubscribe requests, the server responded
right away.

Any ideas why there is now no response at all?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Davis [mailto:ryand-ruby@zenspider.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:51 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

On May 29, 2013, at 13:48 , Matthew Westerberg <matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca> wrote:

When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "#

unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying
that my email has no effective commands, etc.

Just reply as-is. Don't change the body at all. I just unsubscribed and
resubscribed and it worked fine. My steps:

1. send "unsubscribe" in the body to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org from my
subscribed email address.
2. get back an email for confirmation.
3. hit reply, hit send. It looked something like this:

blah blah

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 201305300736321631415926 ryand-ruby zenspider.com

blah blah

I didn't change the body at all. Do make sure that it too is sent from the
subscribed address. (I use email address extensions to sort into mailboxes
and track spammers... like Nicholas Meyler!)

4. Get a final response that you've been unsubscribed.

Extra data: I'm using osx's mail.app and sending/receiving plain text email.
Your mail client should also be sending plain text email to ruby-talk-ctl@.

11

Would an administrator kindly remove my email address from this mailing list?

It's not my intent to bother anyone or be lazy about this. I understand that there is a procedure in place to unsubscribe. But it doesn't work for me. I've followed the directions for unsubscribing exactly as they have been provided, and for me, for whatever reason, they don't work.

I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Meyler [mailto:nickm@wdsearch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:00 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

Unfortunately, I have the problem, too. Clearly not a unique one.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Westerberg [mailto:matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:50 PM
To: ruby-talk ML; ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

Thanks, Ryan. I think my issue might be that my email (Outlook) was sending HTML not plain text. I changed that but now I've got a different problem: I don't receive the confirmation email (Step 2 in your description below). And I'm not already unsubscribed because I keep on getting emails from the mailing list. I've since tried sending the initial unsubscribe request in both HTML and plain text and I don't receive any response. I've also tried responding (Step 3) in plain text to the original (Step 2) confirmation emails that I received (before asking for help) but nothing happens: not the final (Step 4) response or even the one I was originally getting about "no effective commands, blah, blah."

When I originally sent (multiple) unsubscribe requests, the server responded right away.

Any ideas why there is now no response at all?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Davis [mailto:ryand-ruby@zenspider.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:51 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: I can't unsubscribe, please help

On May 29, 2013, at 13:48 , Matthew Westerberg <matthew@littlemountainengineering.ca> wrote:

When I reply to it (I've tried replying with "unsubscribe", "#

unsubscribe", and with nothing at all) I get a lengthy email in reply saying
that my email has no effective commands, etc.

Just reply as-is. Don't change the body at all. I just unsubscribed and
resubscribed and it worked fine. My steps:

1. send "unsubscribe" in the body to ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org from my
subscribed email address.
2. get back an email for confirmation.
3. hit reply, hit send. It looked something like this:

blah blah

unsubscribe

unsubscribe-confirm 201305300736321631415926 ryand-ruby zenspider.com

blah blah

I didn't change the body at all. Do make sure that it too is sent from the
subscribed address. (I use email address extensions to sort into mailboxes
and track spammers... like Nicholas Meyler!)

4. Get a final response that you've been unsubscribed.

Extra data: I'm using osx's mail.app and sending/receiving plain text email.
Your mail client should also be sending plain text email to ruby-talk-ctl@.