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On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Sunday 23 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > On Sunday 23 May 2010 12:21:39 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > > > It would be great if mailing list software could be configured so |
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> > > > that only users who demonstrate they know how to unsubscribe could |
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> > > > subscribe in the first place. Example: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > - user subscribes |
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> > > > - mailing list replies: "please unsubscribe and subscribe again" |
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> > > > - if user fails to do so within a configurable amount of time, |
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> > > > forcibly unsubscribe him |
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> > > > - if user succeeds, leave him subscribed after the second |
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> > > > subscription. |
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> > > |
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> > > And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is |
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> > > fallible, as no-one knows better than I do. |
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> > > |
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> > > Better for this purpose would be to require all mailing lists to |
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> > > operate in the same way, but that's equally unlikely, as well as |
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> > > undesirable. |
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> > > |
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> > > > Just saying... |
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> > > What does that mean? I had a mother-in-law once who often added it to a |
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> > > critical remark, and I never understood what she meant by it either. |
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> > |
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> > and for the uncurable stupid, unsubscribe instructions are in the header |
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> > of |
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> > every mail send: |
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> I wouldn't call people who don't know how to unsubscribe stupid, as they |
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> most certainly aren't. |
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> But for sure, they should know how to find that information if needed, and |
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> all the "HELP UNSUBSCRIBE" kind of messages clearly show that they don't. |
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> And even your posting of the instructions now, cannot help future |
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> subscribers who won't read your email. That's why it would probably be |
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> better (in my opinion) to append the instructions to every message. But |
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> this is a very old debate and was discussed to death many times in the |
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> past, so I'm certainly not going to further it (and I hope it won't start |
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> another endless thread). |
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> (this is not directed to you Volker) |
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> If somebody wants to flame or continue to criticize, feel free to do that, |
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> I won't reply anyway as I have nothing more to add to what I've said |
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> already. |
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yeah, 'search mailing list archive' is such a hard thing to do. Why again |
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should laziness be tolerated? |