Re: unsuscribe

[Ian D Romanick <idr cs pdx edu>]

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Ian D Romanick wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the help could be made more useful, too.  You see, it seems that
> > there you set a password when you subscribe, but when you forget what that
> > password is, the "help" file give no help as to how to get it sent back to
> > you.  Oh yeah, don't bother sending mail to the list administrator because
> > he'll just ignore you.  Grr...
> > 
> I'm pretty sure the "help" command tells how to get the password
> emailed to you.

I stand somewhat corrected.  There is some documentation for the command
that will send your password.  It just doesn't tell you that the command
will send your password!  Where's what the "help" file says:

    password <oldpassword> <newpassword>
            Change your list password.

What it doesn't say is that if you send this command by itself, your
password will be sent back to you.  Sigh...

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