Put Your Mailing Lists on Hold!

Put Your Mailing Lists on Hold!

If you plan to graduate next month, or simply be away for the summer, and therefore won't be around to use your RCS account, you should cancel your current mailing list subscriptions, or put them on hold if you can.

For most mailing lists, you should send a message to the person in charge (or the list moderator), and ask that your name be removed from the list. (If you are on a high-volume mailing list, it's worth doing this even if you will only be gone a short while.) Those of you who return to campus in the fall should then send a message to the same person or moderator, requesting to be added to the list again.

If you belong to a LISTPROC mailing list, send the following command in a mail message to the same address as you sent your original subscription request, replacing listname-l with the actual name of the mailing list:

	set listname-l nomail

When you wish to receive mail from the list again, send the following command in a mail message, replacing listname-l with the actual name of the mailing list:

	set listname-l mail

In both cases, you will receive a message from the list confirming your request.

If you are on an Internet mailing list, send a mail message to the list, appending -request to the listname, requesting that the administrator remove your name from the list. For example, if you subscribe to bionews@mit.edu, send your request to the address bionews-request@mit.edu.

When you wish to be added back to the mailing list, send a message to the same -request address, asking the list maintainer to add your name to the list again.


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