Joe and all who want to be unsubsribed:
just as your previous subscription
your unsubsription is an action to be done solely by you.
Basically, you have to send the unsubsribe command to listserver, which
is an automat,
not to the forum, which consists from users like me and you only.
I attach here the description which all of us receieved after having
subsribed.
In addition, if only full mailbox is your concern,
you may opt for DIGGEST option,
which will deliver you all postings from one day packed into a single
mail
including table of contents.
regards
Juraj Salak
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:53:22
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