Re: Please remove my email

The Wanderer <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:14:54 -0400

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On 2026-08-06 at 07:39, [email protected] wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 06:09:20AM -0500, Victor Korniloff wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Hope this is the right email.
> 
> Well... not quite. You now have let know all ~6000 subscribers
> of debian-user that you want to unsubscribe, but no one of us
> can do anything about it...
> 
>> I would like to unsubscribe from security all updates.
>> 
>> Please remove this email - [email protected] - from the list.
> 
> Only you can remove yourself. Send a mail to
> 
>   [email protected]
> 
> with the subject "unsubscribe" and follow the instructions.

That's how to unsubscribe from the debian-user mailing list.

In this case, however, he asked to unsubscribe from "security all
updates".

Which sounds like he might be trying to unsubscribe from the
debian-security-announce mailing list?

Or from something else, completely unrelated.

In order to be sure, we'd at least need to know what the From address of
those updates is, and potentially get a copy (e.g. as an attachment) of
one of the messages in question. (And even that's assuming that the
messages are coming in via E-mail, rather than popping up in some other
context which led him to come here about them because he's running
Debian and they're popping up with Debian.)

> Tip for the next time: most mailing lists do this. Look into your
> mail headers and you will find something like:
> 
>   List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
> 
> which hints at what you can do.

This is potentially still a viable option, assuming the messages
involved are being sent through a traditional mailing list subscription
rather than some kind of less user-controlled arrangement. It might even
work if the "security all updates" messages are something entirely
unrelated to Debian.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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