At 12/18/2001 11:59 PM -0500, Alison R. Tytell wrote:
>I am also having problems leaving the listserve (can't process this much
>email!!) I think the problem is that many of the email servers, including
>hotmail, which I use, add text at the bottom of every message sent as
>advertisement.  Is there any way to sign off from another address that
>doesn't do that?  or to get the computer to not acknowledge the extra text?

The solution is simple, but not well documented:  Place two hyphens on the
next line after the last Listserv command in your message.  Listserv will
ignore anything below this line in your message.  This would make the body
of your "signoff" message look like this:

         signoff whatever-list
         --

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