On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:54 +0200, Alpar Juttner wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:37 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Tuesday, April 13, 2010 a las 09:34:13AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan 
> > escribió:
> > 
> > > However, you actually *can* unsubscribe via mail, see
> > > http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030537. Thus, someone
> > > could unsubscribe from this list by sending a message (any message, it
> > > doesn't matter) to <evolution-list-le...@gnome.org>.
> > > 
> > > However saying this is probably a waste of time since the intended
> > > audience isn't going to read it.
> > 
> > Fully agree. This is just another example of: Nobody reads anything, who
> > does, will not understand in most of the cases, who understands, will
> > forget it soon. (based on Stanislav Lem, I think)
> 
> These "unsubscribe" emails are posted regularly and the answer is always
> an angry
> 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > evolution-list mailing list
> > > evolution-list@gnome.org
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
> 
> > Read this and unsubscribe yourself ^^^^
> > 
> To be honest, it is not very clear for me why the users are expected to
> find out that they should follow that link in order to unsubscribe.
> 
> What about replacing this footer to something more informative instead
> of blaming the users all the time for not clicking each and every link
> the can see?

I agree. It should, instead, say something like:

Modify settings or unsubscribe
at:http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list

It does not hurt to state it. Who manages the Evolution-list?

..C..

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