[boost] Subscription Problems

From: Brian W. Barrett (brbarret_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-19 16:52:25

Hello -

It appears that some of you are a little less than happy about the recent 
move from Yahoo! groups to MailMan.  I can understand the problems 
associated with suddenly getting tons of mail from boost - I had forgotten 
I was subscribed from our testing period and suddenly got entirely too 
much e-mail :).

It is unfortunate that we were unable to keep the "no-mail" setting from 
the Yahoo! list.  Yahoo! does not have a way to get a list of people with 
that option and it would have been extremely time-consuming for us to 
import those people (we would have needed to set each one individually).  
We did what we thought was right and what has been "standard practice" for 
every mailing list move I have ever seen.

If you wish to unsubscribe (or just set your status to "no mail"), it is 
quite simple to do.  Simply go to

   http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

scroll down to the bottom, and enter the e-mail address you are subscribed 
under - which will be the e-mail address you were using while boost was 
hosted at Yahoo!.  Clicking the "Edit Options" button will take you to a 
screen where you can edit all your list settings, including the ability to 
unsubscribe.

If you don't know your password (which most of you won't), you can click 
on the "E-mail me my password" option, which will mail you the password 
for that e-mail address.  I understand that there may be some problems 
with the password e-mail feature.  Currently, sendmail is a little backed 
up because of the recent surge in mail from the boost list.  The password 
should arrive within a couple minutes.

If you still have trouble unsubscribing, please do not post to the list - 
that simply increases the volume of mail and those that read the list are 
not necessarily those that can help you.  Instead, send an e-mail to 
"boost-admin_at_[hidden]".  It would be helpful to keep the message as 
short as possible, but please include a list of the possible e-mail 
addresses you would be subscibed as.  This will greatly help the list 
admins deal with the problem.

Thank you for your time,

Brian

-- 
  Brian Barrett
  Graduate Student, Open Systems Lab, Indiana University
  http://www.osl.iu.edu/~brbarret/