people who want to leave mail lists

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 07:40 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> 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.

I've seen these requests too.  It seems that if you ignore them they'll
figure it out.

Lee