Re: How do I change my subscription?

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () ss2 digex net>]

You have my deepest sympathies.  I've been trying for over a year via messages 
to postmaster () merit edu and others, to get rs () tiny sprintlink net taken off 
the nanog list (I left Sprint last July).  I get mail as rs () digex net 
directly, and I get mail forwarded to me via Sprint, which means that I get 
two copies of everything that comes along.

Problem is, the folks at Merit consistently deny that rs () tiny sprintlink net 
is on the list, though if you telnet to merit.edu's smtp port and EXPN the 
list, you see rs () tiny sprintlink net there, plain as day.

Well, you used to be able to.  Now if you telnet to merit.edu port 25 and say 
"expn nanog", the expn will eventually time out.

This situation wouldn't be so bad if I could have an ongoing dialog with the 
Merit folks until we got things straightened out, but the standard MO seems to 
be to ignore the mail for three weeks to a month before sending back a claim 
that I'm not on the list and never have been.  Then when I respond to that 
message, it goes in the bit bucket.  I went through three iterations of this, 
and then gave up and wrote an incoming mail action to simply delete all 
duplicate messages in my nanog mailbox.  It's simpler.

Since all other mailing lists I used to subscribe to have propagated to 
rs () digex net and NANOG mail is the only mail to me that routinely traverses 
Sprint, it crossed my mind to ask Sprint to point all mail for rs@tiny to 
nanog () merit edu, but that seemed a little mean-spirited.  :)

                                                ---Rob



>  I've tried nanog-request () merit edu, it's no a valid address, and 
> I've tried majordomo () merit edu, ditto.  I need to change my 
> subscription to point to my new address.  
>  
> In case anyone's reading this that can do it, I subscribed to this list 
> as either: 
>  
>     patrick () amdahl com 
>     patrick () oes amdahl com 
> or  pjh70 () eng amdahl com 
>  
> Starting Monday, my address will be: 
>  
>     patrick () verity com 
>  
> Thanks, and we return you to regularly scheduled business;) 
>  
> Patrick