On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Athar S. Sidiqi wrote:
It is not laziness or ignorance or "stupidity" - it is just inconvenient.
Well you used the word lazy first. ;-)
I would much rather direct the emails to dev/null than have to go through
information on how to unsubscribe. I just mentioned this not so that
people can call me stupid or ignorant or a beginner. I said it for the
future convenience and user-friendliness of the list. I CAN go to a search
engine and find out more about how to unsubscribe but I just considered it
more convenient to redirect all messages to dev/null instead of bothering
I'd find more conveniet to try to understand how to get help and learn
from it how to unsubscribe. The procedure is same for all lists, these
things you have to learn just once. At least that's my own feeling of what
is convenient. -than to search the I-space.
with bots and specific commands and owners of lists (whose addresses I
dont know) or to deal with mailer-daemon address not found returns - but
It's a good to habit to always when someone establishes an email-list, to
create owner-listname and listname-owner aliases. Also the original
message with the hint you should always send to listowner, not to the
list.
if two lines of signature added to each mail's end (like they have in
hotmail and deja news services) that instructs you about subsribe and
It increases the size of archives, and probably one thought that people on
this list are clever enough to unsubscribe without problems.
unsubscribe information would be convenient and appreciated by many users
- I am not the only one who has sent remove messages to the wrong mailing
list.
Yes, I do on our servers block messages which contain in subject or in
first few lines of message words like index, remove, unsubscribe,
subscribe etc. These messages are forwarded to list-owner (me). You
wouldn't believe but there are people who try to subscribe on the
listaddress! ;-)
I think those 2 lines are annoying for most of subscribers, and those few
should learn (when they managed to subscribe) how to unsubscribe.
I hope you already managed to unsubscribe. Probably we shouldn't
continue CC:'ing the list.
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