Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Jim Osborn <jimo@eskimo.com> [03-01-05 16:44]:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 3:19:35PM +0000, Fergus Wilde wrote:
If people are really such sad cases that they can't figure this out it is somewhat hard to have any patience with their joining a tech list in the first place.
Yeah, but you won't know that until they've actually joined. Best thing then is to make it extra easy for them to leave, despite being dimwits; maybe *joining* should require demonstration of some clue-fullness. :)
Such as not being able to complete the subscribe process until demonstrating the correct procedure to unsubscribing.
"In order to subscribe, please unsubscribe". That's almost as intuitive has clicking on the Windows "Start" button, to shut down. ;-)