Hmm. That's interesting. I recently unsubscribed from many mailinglists, following the instructions at the bottom of each email, and automated replys were immediately sent to me.
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:53, Siward de Groot wrote: > On wednesday Bill Stoye wrote: > > > Thank you for your help; I finally got off the list. > > so it turns out that it is possible, > albeit after a delay of 2 weeks. > > I think it is not-nice and unnecessary to keep users uninformed of the > situation. > As it is now, they find that unsubscribing doesnt work and listmaster > doesnt respond, > until that happy day 2 weeks later. > This seems weird for an organization that claims that the users are > their first priority. > > If the problem is in the process of being solved, > it would be nice to receive an estimate of when this will be from > listmaster(s). > (preferably in the form of a daily post to d-u, so everybody knows > about it). > > As long as it is not solved, it is good manners to put a notice on the > subscription webpage > saying "it may take a couple of weeks before an unsubscription request > is processed". > I hereby request you to put such a notice on said webpage. > > Out of curiosity i would like to know whether anybody offered help to > listmasters > or are they just considered 'external to debian so fuck them' ? > With all the programming talents in Debian an usubscription script > shouldnt be hard to get right. > > i hope this will make Debian even better than it already is. > > have fun ! > > Siward > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | You ask us the same question every day, and we give you | | the same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will | | believe us... | | Donald Rumsfeld, to a reporter | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
