Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Christopher Mahmood <ckm@xxxxxxxx>]

* Derek Fountain (derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx) [030813 18:16]:
> > Read the manual for your mail client.
> 
> I've tried to point out the insanity of this "read the headers to unsubscribe" 
> thing before, but got nowhere. This comment tempts me to try again.

asbestos gloves on.

> Chris, you are now telling people that in order to get off this list, they 
> have to read the manual to their email client, and learn about headers and 
> how to get to see them?

No.

> Do people want to do that? Do they have the time?

Give me a break.  It's not like the instructions say 'To unsubscribe
telnet to port 25 of lists.suse.com and forge an unsubscription
using the address you subscribed with'.

> Why is it so hard to change the tagline which so confuses newbies and the 
> email-uninitiated to:
> 
> To unsubscribe see http://www.suse.com/us/business/mailinglists.html

It's not, it's that that is not very helpful.  99% of the
subscribers can unsubscribe by emailing
LISTNAME-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxx  For those people who are at sites
whose admins are morons and change the sender domain without
realizing what they are doing or people who's ISP (like attbi) is
being taken over ever other week by another company, doing that won't
work.  They can't post to the list either.  They can, however, email
the address in list-unsubscribe header in any mail they get from the
list and unsubscribe themselves.

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-ckm