3 How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions

When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from <[email protected]>. In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here is a typical message:

Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list!

If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send
mail to "[email protected]" with the following command in the body
of your email message:

unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey <[email protected]>

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in case you don't already have it:

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You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless
you consider the question to be pretty technical.

Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you do not need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed.

If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you are not on the list, this may mean one of two things:

1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That is where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [email protected]. Since then, I have changed it to [email protected]. If I were to try to remove [email protected] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined.

2. You are subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that is the case, you will have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you are not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there is a clue there.

If you have done all this, and you still can not figure out what is going on, send a message to <[email protected]>, and he will sort things out for you. Do not send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can not help you.