Re: [SLE] Suggestion about unsubscribing
From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 12/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:36:25 +0100 (CET) To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
The Monday 2003-12-29 at 21:32 -0800, Tom Emerson wrote:
> > 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,
I am, of course - kind o "ironic" would be a better description ;-)
> but at least I can report that
> kmail doesn't "recognize" email list management information.
Ah, that's interesting. And Kenneth reports that evolution doesn't,
either.
> 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.
Right.
>
> 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
On the other hand... just an idea. The list administrator could parse the
subject line for "unsubscribe" or similars, and trigger an automatic
response explaining how to unsubscribe, of the type "unsubscribe for
dumbs" - no offense intended on them, there is a nice collection of books
here generally named "informática para torpes", that is, "computing for
dumbs" that I find quite good.
Another idea would be to automatically forward those emails to the
administrator, so that he quietly unsusbsribes them. I suspect Chris did
something like this.
> 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?
No matter how much we talk about this, some people in time to come will
not have considered all we are writing about here, and flame them or
whatever.
> 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...]
Some one did, recently, even indicating that the list admin was not
responding. Holidays, probably.
--
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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