Re: [Evolution] unsubscribe

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:54 +0200, Alpar Juttner wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:37 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El dÃa Tuesday, April 13, 2010 a las 09:34:13AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribiÃ:
> > > However, you actually *can* unsubscribe via mail, see
> > > http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030537. Thus, someone
> > > could unsubscribe from this list by sending a message (any message, it
> > > doesn't matter) to <evolution-list-leave gnome org>.
> > > However saying this is probably a waste of time since the intended
> > > audience isn't going to read it.
> > Fully agree. This is just another example of: Nobody reads anything, who
> > does, will not understand in most of the cases, who understands, will
> > forget it soon. (based on Stanislav Lem, I think)
> These "unsubscribe" emails are posted regularly and the answer is always
> an angr
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > evolution-list mailing list
> > > evolution-list gnome org
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
> > Read this and unsubscribe yourself ^^^^
> To be honest, it is not very clear for me why the users are expected to
> find out that they should follow that link in order to unsubscribe.
> What about replacing this footer to something more informative instead
> of blaming the users all the time for not clicking each and every link
> the can see?

I blame the users, and I don't feel bad about it at all.  This is the
same list software used by the majority of lists AND ** they had to go
to that page to subscribe themselves! ***  Seriously,  "unsubscribe me"
posts are ridiculous.

But changing the footer to "To change your settings or unsubscribe..."
will at least make the ire even more justified [it won't actually help,
they still won't read it].