Re: [Evolution] unsubscribe - a wider problem?(a little off-topic<g>)

[Brewster Gillett <bg fdi us>]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 00:41 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 11:21 -0400, Rick Stanley wrote:
> > > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ...
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
> >
> > Read the above.
>
> I think what I find surprising (and sad) is that the sig of the OP says
> that they are "Computer System Consultants" and "Linux & Open Source
> Specialists" - if they can't figure out how to unsubscribe from a
> mailing list, what hope is there!
>
> P.

bg:

I feel sorry for this guy's clients if this is indicative of his level
of awareness. Of course the fact that someone claiming to be a Linux
specialist is using a gmail address, rather than his own domain, is also
a trifle off-putting :-)

I am beginning to think, based on observing the clueless list-directed
unsub requests, and also on several other unrelated observations over
time, that what we may have here is a pandemic failure to read to the
end of documents of all kinds. I'm interested in hearing whether others
have noticed this. So very often, I see people uninformed about
something that they would have possessed full information about if only
they had read a given (something) all the way to the end, rather than
abandoning it partway through.

A good example is the discussion of op-eds. Many people seem to be
unaware that the essay form generally results in a summation of the
points, and sometimes even the first integration of the elements of the
points, in the final paragraph. So they read the first half of the 
editorial, and conclude from this that they know what the writer was
trying to communicate, and proceed to discuss it as if they knew all
about it, and fall flat on their faces because they never bothered
to finish it.

Your thoughts?

Brewster

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