[Air-l] Tutorial: How to unsubscribe from air-l

[Gilbert B. Rodman]

> > one key point of communicating with the list is that you have to
> > send
> > from an email that is subscribed to the list, it has to be a
> > perfect
> > match, or the list software will discard it.
> >
>
>Of course, unfortunately, this setting makes it impossible to use aliases 
>for this list, unless you're okay with not ever posting anything.

Actually, it's not impossible at all.  On lists that I manage, people 
routinely get around this by subscribing from multiple aliases and then 
setting all but one such subscriptions to "nomail."  They can then post 
from different aliases without getting 2-3 copies of every list message.

And given the number of spam messages that get sent to (and auto-discarded 
from) those lists anyway, I suspect that if Jeremy were to change this 
setting to a more open-ended one, the list would be awash in genuine spam, 
rather than just people struggling to recover their lost settings.

Cheers
Gil