On 28.10.2011 14:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name>: >> Eric, you may want to explain what "account wizard" is. >> >> Have you unsubscribed yet? > No. Trying again now... > > Am at http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > I see a line that says: > > Unsubscribe: Send an email to dev-unsubscr...@subversion.apache.org > > I click on the mailto link. > > My browser pops up a mmail-compositioin form, as I would expect. In > front of it, there is another popup named "New Account Setup". It says: > > New Account Setup > In order to receive messages, you first need to set up a mail or > newsgroup account. > > This Wizard will collect the information necessaery to set up > a Mail or Newsgroup account. If you do not know the > information requested, please contact your System > Administrator or Internet Service Provider. > > Select the type of account you want to set up. > > * Blogs & News Feeds > > * Unix mailspool (movemail) > > * Newsgroup account > > I find this unhelpful, not to say obnoxious. I don't want to "set up an > account", I want to *unsubscribe from a mailing list*. That's *all* I want > to do, not be sidetracked by idiotic popup wizards trying to "help" me.
Well, for someone with your obvious mileage, you do have a hard time telling the difference between your browser+mail client and the web site. :) These days it's even hard to guess from your description which platform is fsck'n with you; used to be only IE+OutlookExpress were that brain dead, but it could easily be Safari+Mail or Firefox+Evolution. -- Brane
