Typically the technician who manages the email account of the recently
deceased notices the exceptional disk space the deceased is using on the
email server and notifies the piclist that they've passed on, ceased to
be, expired, stiff, bereft of life, rests in peace, pushing up the
daisies, kicked the bucket, shuffled off his/her mortal coil, run down
the curtian and joined the choir invisible.

It has happened before - I think it was a co-worker who notified the list.

Coincidently the list was pretty rude about it.  It went something like
this:

Email: How do I unsubscribe from the list
List:  Lots of rude comments, jibes, etc (the usual)
Email: Actually, I'm unsubscribing my coworker (this is not my email).
 He passed away last week and I've been taking care of his email.
List:  Oops!  Sorry!

So it doesn't always pay off to assume the person asking to get off is
unable to follow directions.  Could be they've never read them.

-Adam

PS:   THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!


dr. Imre Bartfai wrote:

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>>Unfortunately it is impossible to unsubscribe from the list.
>>Once subscribed that is it for life- or the closure of the list
>>whichever is sooner.
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>               ^^^^^^
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>I do not understand how the list could sense the termination of
>subscriber's life. I guess this may not lead to an unsubscription. Even if
>it would so, the marked word should be changed to "later".
>
>Regards,
>Imre
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