On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:51 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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 angr > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 blame the users, and I don't feel bad about it at all. This is the > same list software used by the majority of lists AND ** they had to go > to that page to subscribe themselves! *** Seriously, "unsubscribe me" > posts are ridiculous. > > But changing the footer to "To change your settings or unsubscribe..." > will at least make the ire even more justified [it won't actually help, > they still won't read it].
+1 on all points. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
