# ML Not taking off or skip command

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ml-not-taking-off-or-skip-command/136437>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 2, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ml-not-taking-off-or-skip-command/136437 "2008-05-02T03:41:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Glenn\_West](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Glenn\_West](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Glenn_West)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ml-not-taking-off-or-skip-command/136437/1 "2008-05-02T03:41:50Z")

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I’ve tried a dozen times to do a off or a skip  
to the ctl address for the ML and it always  
tells me its not a valid command  
With the # and without in the mail body.

I prefer to read on google, than have my mailbox killed.

Help!

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**Author:** ![Glenn\_West](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Glenn\_West](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Glenn_West)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ml-not-taking-off-or-skip-command/136437/2 "2008-05-02T03:46:32Z")

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Glenn West wrote:  
| I’ve tried a dozen times to do a off or a skip  
| to the ctl address for the ML and it always  
| tells me its not a valid command  
| With the # and without in the mail body.  
|  
| I prefer to read on google, than have my mailbox killed.

‘help’ would’ve, well, helped. 😉

Anyway, from the header of mails by Ruby T.:

List-Post: [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
List-Owner: [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
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List-Unsubscribe: [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid?body=unsubscribe](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid?body=unsubscribe)

You want List-Unsubscribe.

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**Author:** ![Glenn\_West](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Glenn\_West](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Glenn_West)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ml-not-taking-off-or-skip-command/136437/3 "2008-05-02T05:53:29Z")

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Hi,

In message “Re: ML Not taking off or skip command”  
on Fri, 2 May 2008 10:41:05 +0900, Glenn West  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

|I’ve tried a dozen times to do a off or a skip  
|to the ctl address for the ML and it always  
|tells me its not a valid command  
|With the # and without in the mail body.

I turned you off manually.

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          matz.

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