# Ruby-talk-ctl doesn't let me unsubscribe using UTF-8

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 4, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-ctl-doesnt-let-me-unsubscribe-using-utf-8/93546 "2006-04-04T18:00:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_Shadel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Tim\_Shadel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tim_Shadel)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-ctl-doesnt-let-me-unsubscribe-using-utf-8/93546/1 "2006-04-04T18:00:51Z")

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OK. I’d like to follow the list in archives, instead of my inbox.  
I’ve been trying to unsubscribe. I’ve Read The Fine Manual [1], and  
used Google frequently, but to no avail.

Every time I send a message to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid, with  
“unsubscribe” in the body I get back a message saying “your mail has  
no effective commands”.

I’ve tried FML(#unsubscribe, #exit), I’ve tried regular “unsubscribe”,  
I’ve tried with the footer and without. I’ve always sent in plaintext  
(not html) as far as I know. My character encoding is set to UTF-8 in  
gmail.

Once I switched gmail back to “default text encoding”, it accepted the  
unsubscribe command (I obviously resubscribed to send this). I  
figured I’d send this to the list so that it was documented for anyone  
else that had trouble unsubscribing from the list.

Thanks for running an excellent list. I’ll continue to enjoy it  
through the archives.

–  
Tim

> **[Tim Shadel](https://www.timshadel.com/)**
>
> Tim Shadel's personal website

[1] [http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020104.html](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020104.html)

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Shadel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Tim\_Shadel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tim_Shadel)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-ctl-doesnt-let-me-unsubscribe-using-utf-8/93546/2 "2006-04-04T18:12:58Z")

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Hi,

In message “Re: ruby-talk-ctl doesn’t let me unsubscribe using UTF-8”  
on Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:00:28 +0900, “Tim Shadel”  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

|OK. I’d like to follow the list in archives, instead of my inbox.  
|I’ve been trying to unsubscribe. I’ve Read The Fine Manual [1], and  
|used Google frequently, but to no avail.

Our list server doesn’t take base64 encoded mails. We have to  
document it somewhere. Thank you.

```
						matz.

```