Re: [SLE] Suggestion about unsubscribing

From: Tom Emerson (osnut_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 12/30/03

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    To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:32:33 -0800

    On Monday 29 December 2003 8:30 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    > The Monday 2003-12-29 at 15:25 +0100, Nick Selby wrote:
    > Mmm... :-?
    >
    > I still don't understand why newcomers can't simply read the instructions.
    >
    > When I subscribed I got an email containing this text (and more):
    > |> Welcome to suse-linux-e@...!
    > |>
    > |> Please save this message so that you know the address you are
    > |> subscribed under, in case you later want to unsubscribe or change your
    > |> subscription address.
    [...]
    > Why is it so difficult to read and follow written instructions?

    Sometimes the e-mail client gets in the way (by deleting "old" messages),
    sometimes it is the case they simply "never (really) read it" in the first
    place, but all to often it could be a case of "yeah, I saved it, but I don't
    remember where..." -- end result is the same: the user simply doesn't have
    that message "accessible" anymore.

    > On the other hand, if you use a decent client email program (Pine, for
    > instance) unsusbscribing just means clicking at the end of the message:
    > |> [ Note: This message contains email list management information ]
    > ...
    > |> Select HERE to Subscribe.
    >
    > Doesn't every body sees this? kmail, mozilla, whatever?

    I suspect you are being intentionally obtuse, but at least I can report that
    kmail doesn't "recognize" email list management information. OTOH, finding
    and reading "full" headers means either a few mouseclicks, or the
    easy-to-remember accellerator key "v" (for "view full message"), but in
    either case these are (primarilly) linux e-mail clients, not web-based or
    pure windows clients.

    But, with all the "pros" associated with "being nice to the [presumed] newbie
    who just wants to leave", has anyone considered the "cons"? Namely, WHO will
    be RESPONSIBLE for sending "the nice e-mail" -- as someone inferred, there
    could be thousands of regular/hard-core linux fanatics on this list, should
    we each respond with a "nice" message [posted to the list, naturally... ;) ]
    Wouldn't that have the same adverse affect as posting flames? What about the
    case of a true e-mail "screw up" where all the regular lines of
    "unsibscribing" simply don't work [it HAS happened before...] and a list
    admin has to do some dirty work [of course, if this is the case, the person
    asking to be removed SHOULD indicate that he or she has actually tried the
    posted methods and they failed...] 

    -- 
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