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Mailing Lists at the University of Birmingham User Guide Commands Unsubscribe

This command is used to leave a list and takes the form

unsubscribe <listname> [<address>]

where <listname> is the name of the list, and <address> is an email address. This is optional but can be useful as the address in the list may differ from the one that you are sending the request from (the square brackets [] are a standard notation for depicting optional parameters and should not be given when using the command). If the address does differ from the one used to submit the request, the request will be referred to the list owner.

For example, to leave the list called "trees" you could send the command

unsubscribe trees

If you need to specify an address, you could send the command

unsubscribe trees E.V.Nebor@bham.ac.uk

Last Updated 07 Apr 1997. Please mail any comments to C.B.Bayliss@bham.ac.uk