No, I sent it to the listserv, not the list. In fact did it several
times. The first time it seemed to work, got no messages for most of a day, then
they started coming again. Some of the other commands I tried didn't work
either, can't remember right now what they were tho.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:38:44PM -0700, Bill N wrote:
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> >
> >   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.

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