Re: remove - instructions how to

[Matthew MacKenzie <matt@XMLGlobal.com>]

Okay,
  There is obviously a ton of people having problems getting off, a
solution:

1) Put up a web form asking for an email addresses to be removed.  After
about 24 hours, take the list of email addresses (newline delimited) and
the ebxml list file ($majordomodir/lists/ebxml??) and do something like
this:

#!perl
my $lfile = "/usr/local/majordomo/lists/ebxml";
my $remfile = "./list.remove";

local(*LF,*RF);

open(LF,$lfile) or die $!;
open(RF,$remfile) or die $!;

my @remove = ();

while (<RF>) { push(@remove,$_) }

while (<LF>) {
	my $subscriber = $_;
	foreach my $rem_reqd (@remove) {
		if ($rem_reqd =~ m!$subscriber!i) {
			next();
		}
		else {
			print $subscriber;
		}
	}
}

usage: perl <thatfile.pl> >new.list.file.TXT

Or, alternatively, open the list file up in an editor.  I would be happy
to help out.

Cheers,
Matt


On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Tom Smith wrote:

> Once again, I am quite sure these people have tried, as have I,  many,
> many times...
> 
> 
> 
> Christian Huemer wrote:
> > 
> > can people wishing to get off the list please read jon's mail
> > that was sent out some hours ago.
> > 
> > christian
> > 
> > ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
> > 
> > Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:50:59 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Jon Bosak <bosak@boethius.eng.sun.com>
> > To: ebxml@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: Re: List Administration ...
> > 
> > [matt@XMLGlobal.com:]
> > 
> > | Hello??  Administrator?? Are you alive??
> > |
> > | It is the majordomo administrator's job to make sure people know
> > | how to get off of the list.  Please do it, its not hard, really.
> > | O'Reilly publishes a book that deals with such administration -
> > | www.ora.com.
> > 
> > Alternatively, people wishing to get off the list could follow the
> > instructions they were sent in the first place.  See below.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > ==================================================================
> > 
> >  Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 16:04:02 -0400 (EDT)
> >  From: Majordomo@lists.oasis-open.org
> >  To: henry.adams@experience.edu
> >  Subject: Welcome to ebxml
> > 
> >  Welcome to the ebxml mailing list!
> > 
> >  Please save this message for future reference.  Thank you.
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >  If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list,
> >  you can send mail to <Majordomo@lists.oasis-open.org> with the following
> >  command in the body of your email message:
> > 
> >      unsubscribe ebxml
> > 
> >  or from another account, besides henry.adams@experience.edu:
> > 
> >      unsubscribe ebxml henry.adams@experience.edu
> > 
> >  If you ever need to get in contact with the owner of the list,
> >  (if you have trouble unsubscribing, or have questions about the
> >  list itself) send email to <owner-ebxml@lists.oasis-open.org> .
> >  This is the general rule for most mailing lists when you need
> >  to contact a human.
> > 
> > ------------- End Forwarded Message -------------
> 
>