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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] please remove me off your mailing list
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 22:47:49
Message-Id: 5743888A.9090002@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] please remove me off your mailing list by Kent Fredric
1 Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On 24 May 2016 at 08:08, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Nope. It doesn't work that way. Try this:
4 >>
5 >> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@l.g.o>
6 >>
7 >> Send a empty email to that and I think you have to confirm.
8 >>
9 >> Dale
10 >
11 > A nice approach I recently saw to this problem on another mailing list
12 > was they had somebody who *could* manually remove people from mailing
13 > lists,
14 > and they'd respond with something along the lines of "We've done this
15 > for you now, but if anyone wants to do this, just email ...
16 > blahblahblah+unsubscribe themselves".
17 >
18 > That makes the effort less for the person requesting removal, and
19 > reduces their margin of error.
20 >
21 > Whether or not gentoo can/wants to do the same, eh.
22 >
23 > Just when I saw it I though "Nice, this is waaay better then the
24 > standard 'you did wrong, try again' ".
25 >
26
27 Well, I started to do the Hotel California thing but wasn't sure if
28 everyone would get that, including the one wanting to check out and
29 leave. LOL
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)