people who want to leave mail lists

[Senectus .]

On 21/06/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 23:15 +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> > It does not seem to do the job. People don't see it, or understand
> > what
> > its function is.
> > I know I only skimmed the help list in the last week and I have seen
> > a
> > couple of them.
> > They get stuck in threads, and in their own mails.
>
> If people are not seeing it, then why would they see another line?
>
> Sorry, I don't think we can help people like this.  They'll have to
> figure it out.
>
> Lee

It's not that they don't see it, or understand it. It's the fact that
it does actually say the words "subscription"  or "unsubscribe" at
all.

I find it interesting that I very rarely see requests asking how they
can unsubscribe, but instead ask the list to unsubscribe them instead.
This makes me think it's a cultural thing and that what seems obvious
to us, isn't to this range of people.

Adding a few extra bytes including the word "unsubscribe" to the
bottom of each mailing list is a tiny act that could solve an on going
issue. (or at least diminish it greatly).


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