This may be a silly question, but has anyone considered making the mailing list accept unsubscribe requests this way? Or at least filter them out and auto-respond with a message explaining how to unsubscribe? Seems like it should be pretty simple and would make it easier for folks to leave and less noise for the rest of us.
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:48 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > I've never noticed the unsubscribe button. That may be a good idea, > though, to support such a feature. Maybe we should poke infra! > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:46 PM Russell Bradberry <rbradbe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> While there is an informative email when you sign up, there are a couple >> issues with it. First, as you said, people don't read instructions. Second, >> people forget. I would have to search back to when I signed up for the list >> in order to find how to unsubscribe. Lastly, gmail and many other apps >> provide a button that says "unsubscribe" which does little more than send >> an email to the list. The latter is the reason I am suggesting that this be >> worked in as an additional way to unsubscribe from the list. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM -0400, "James Carman" < >> ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> I see the confusion on quite a few lists around the organization. It's >>> not rampant, but it does happen. Perhaps it would be a good idea to improve >>> the communication somehow. When you first subscribe, you get a pretty >>> informative email describing all of the things you can do via email, but >>> who reads instructions?!?! :). I wonder if infra could force a footer on >>> the emails or something. >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:35 PM Russell Bradberry <rbradbe...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I think the overall issue here is that there are many apps that provide >>>> an "unsubscribe" button that automagically sends these emails. >>>> >>>> I think the best course of action would be to bring this up to the >>>> powers that be to possibly decide on supporting this functionality as a >>>> feature. This, of course, because this method of unsubscribing from lists >>>> is pretty much standard now. >>>> >>>> Im not sure the patronizing responses with Google links help at all. >>>> >>>> >>>> _____________________________ >>>> From: James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 8:24 PM >>>> Subject: Re: unsubscibe >>>> To: <user@cassandra.apache.org> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Was the Google stuff really necessary? Couldn't you have just nicely >>>> told them how to unsubscribe? >>>> >>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:52 PM Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> You did not unsubscribe yet. >>>>> >>>>> 'unsubscribe cassandra' in google search: >>>>> >>>>> Result 1: http://www.planetcassandra.org/apache-cassandra-mailing- >>>>> lists/ >>>>> Result 2: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/ >>>>> Result 3: http://cassandra.apache.org/ >>>>> >>>>> Sending a message to user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org, as >>>>> mentioned everywhere, should work better and spam less people. >>>>> >>>>> Alain >>>>> >>>>> 2016-08-13 23:32 GMT+02:00 Lawrence Turcotte < >>>>> lawrence.turco...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>
