> Please unsubscribe me until further notice.
 
<and other similar posts lately>
 
You will have to address this to the LISTSERV, not the list.  I'm afraid
it it went to the 400+list members, not the LISTSERV.
 
Unfortunately they cannot unsubscribe you -- no matter how much they may
wish to :-)
 
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There seem to be a lot of people who don't know how to subscribe/unsubscribe.
 
For the benefit of all, here is the greeting the LISTSEV sends with each
new sub.  It tells the basics of getting on and off the list without
posting your request to all readers:
 
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Your  subscription to  the  BEE-L list  (Discussion of  Bee  Biology) has  been
accepted.
 
Please  save this  message  for future  reference, especially  if  you are  not
familiar with LISTSERV. This might look like  a waste of disk space now, but in
6 months you will be glad you  saved this information when you realize that you
cannot  remember what  are the  lists you  are subscribed  to, or  what is  the
command to  leave the list to  avoid filling up  your mailbox while you  are on
vacations.  In fact,  you  should create  a new  mail  folder for  subscription
confirmation messages  like this one, and  for the "welcome messages"  from the
list owners that  you are will occasionally receive after  subscribing to a new
list.
 
To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send
mail to  [log in to unmask] This  is called "sending  mail to  the list",
because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the
people  who have  subscribed.  This address  ([log in to unmask]) is  also
called the  "list address".  You must  never try  to send  any command  to that
address, as it would be distributed to  all the people who have subscribed. All
commands must be  sent to the "LISTSERV  address", [log in to unmask] (or
[log in to unmask]). It is very  important to understand the difference
between the two, but fortunately it is not complicated. The LISTSERV address is
like a  FAX number, and the  list address is like  a normal phone line.  If you
make your  FAX call someone's  regular phone number by  mistake, it will  be an
unpleasant experience for him but you  will probably be excused the first time.
If you  do it regularly,  however, he  will probably get  upset and send  you a
nasty complaint.  It is the same  with mailing lists, with  the difference that
you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time, so a lot more
people get annoyed if you use the wrong number.
 
You may  leave the list  at any  time by sending  a "SIGNOFF BEE-L"  command to
[log in to unmask]  (or [log in to unmask]).  You  can also  tell
LISTSERV how  you want it to  confirm the receipt  of messages you send  to the
list. If  you do not  trust the  system, send a  "SET BEE-L REPRO"  command and
LISTSERV will send  you a copy of your  own messages, so that you  can see that
the message was distributed  and did not get damaged on the  way. After a while
you may  find that this  is getting annoying,  especially if your  mail program
does not  tell you that the  message is from you  when it informs you  that new
mail has  arrived from BEE-L.  If you send a  "SET BEE-L ACK  NOREPRO" command,
LISTSERV  will  mail you  a  short  acknowledgement  instead, which  will  look
different in  your mailbox  directory. With  most mail  programs you  will know
immediately that  this is an acknowledgement  you can read later.  Finally, you
can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET BEE-L NOACK NOREPRO".
 
Contributions sent to this list are  automatically archived. You can get a list
of  the  available  archive  files  by sending  an  "INDEX  BEE-L"  command  to
[log in to unmask]  (or [log in to unmask]).  You can  then order
these files  with a "GET BEE-L  LOGxxxx" command, or using  LISTSERV's database
search facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE"  command for more information on the
latter.
 
Please note that it is presently possible for anybody to determine that you are
signed up to  the list through the  use of the "REVIEW"  command, which returns
the e-mail  address and name of  all the subscribers.  If you do not  want your
name to be visible, just issue a "SET BEE-L CONCEAL" command.
 
More information  on LISTSERV commands can  be found in the  LISTSERV reference
card,  which  you  can  retrieve  by  sending  an  "INFO  REFCARD"  command  to
[log in to unmask] (or [log in to unmask]).