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On Sunday 23 May 2010, Indexer wrote: |
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> On 23/05/2010, at 8:51 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 23 May 2010, Fabian Köster wrote: |
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> >>> I WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE |
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> >> |
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> >> Maybe you should just do it and stop making noise: |
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> >> |
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> >> gentoo-user+unsubscribe@l.g.o |
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> > |
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> > It would be great if mailing list software could be configured so that |
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> > only users who demonstrate they know how to unsubscribe could subscribe |
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> > 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, forcibly |
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> > unsubscribe him |
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> > - if user succeeds, leave him subscribed after the second subscription. |
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> > |
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> > Just saying... |
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> |
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> You may as well attach an IQ test as well. The fact is that it is easy to |
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> read how to unsubscribe, as well as that it is simple to not click and |
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> open every piece of email you recieve, so complaints like this are rather |
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> baseless. |
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Uh? If it's so easy to read how to unsubscribe, why so many people |
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periodically beg for help to unsubscribe, or send useless "unsubscribe" |
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messages to mailing lists? |
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And yes, it's not so strange that to be accepted as part of a group you may be |
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asked to demonstrate that you know what the rules are. It happens all the time |
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in fact. |
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