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GMANE provides an alternative service for most mailing lists. c.f. bug 424647
List Archive: gentoo-desktop
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@...> wrote:
>
>> P. S. I do get a kick out of these. People figure oout how to get on here
>> but can't get off here. lol
>>
> Especially when every single message contains these useful headers:
>
> List-Post:<mailto:gentoo-desktop@g.o>
> List-Help:<mailto:gentoo-desktop+help@g.o>
> List-Unsubscribe:<mailto:gentoo-desktop+unsubscribe@g.o>
> List-Subscribe:<mailto:gentoo-desktop+subscribe@g.o>
>
> And, of course, when people sign up they are sent this information:
>
>
>> Welcome! You have been subscribed to the
>>
>> gentoo-desktop@g.o
>>
>> mailinglist.
>>
>> To unsubscribe send a message to:
>>
>> gentoo-desktop+unsubscribe@g.o
>>
>> And for help send a message to:
>>
>> gentoo-desktop+help@g.o
>>
>>
>
> Not to mention the very first result for "gentoo mailing list" on google is:
> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
>
> (which contains the above mentioned information and more)
>
>
>
And let's not forget, they almost certainly got the instructions to
subscribe off the Gentoo mailing list page. Most any mailing list I
have ever seen has the instructions to subscribe and unsubscribe on the
same page.
Sort of weird people can't remember how they subscribed.
Dale
:-) :-)
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