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Actually, if there's people using Ubuntu that (subscribe to the mailing and 
that) doesn't know what a mailing list it is a very good sign for Ubuntu. 
After all, the average user is targeted and the average user doesn't know 
what a mailing list is.
I bet you don't get much people not knowing what a mailing list is on the 
Linux's dev list.

On Friday, 2 de June de 2006 14:10, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 02 June 2006 12:15, Chris Neary wrote:
> > Do people sign up to the list not even knowing what this is?
>
> Yup, that about sums it up nicely.
>
> Long version: An average user tries Ubuntu and likes it. From
> somewhere or other they find that there's a user list and they
> subscribe to it, not really reading and comprehending what it's all
> about. For the next week ubuntu-users dumps 300 messages a day in
> their inbox which from their point of view is rather ... unexpected.
>
> Me and you know all about mailing lists, but Aunt Tillie actually
> doesn't know much at all and just gets overwhelmed by the traffic.
> There's an interesting parallel in one of Richard Bach's early books:
> he lists *5* *pages* of text on all the signs hanging up in an
> average airport, then a conversation between a confused traveller and
> an airport employee who says "Just read the signs, they tell you
> where to go." Imagine this: traveller looks around and wonders "So
> which one of the 14,538 signs that I can see right now is the one I'm
> supposed to read?......"
>
> Best response to the original poster is to send them a mail off-list
> with the unsubscribe link and explain in one sentence that they have
> to do it themselves.
>
> p.s. Jens, this doesn't mean you are the average user above. It's
> about people posting unsubscribe messages in general.
>
> --
> If only me, you and dead people understand hex,
> how many people understand hex?
>
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five

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