I would guess that the most common cause of this is sending the nomail request to the list
itself, at:

vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

To work, it must be sent to the list server, whose address is:

LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM.

It has always worked for me.

Bill

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>
>   Well, according to the directions, you send a message to the listserver
> saying:
>
> set vanagon nomail
>
>
>  However, don't be surprised if it doesn't work, although I tried it several
> times and got no error message, the mail kept coming. Maybe if enough people
> complain the list manager will fix it.