On 9/9/05, B. Magilavy bmagilavy@avalon-internet.com wrote:
Perhaps it would be clearer to people who are not familiar with the conventions of mailing lists if the footer were a bit more explicit: "To unsubscribe, go to " ... "and scroll down to the bottom of the page."
Other lists I have seem are set up to unsubscribe on a return e-mail with that as the subject, which is very nice.
Hi, I really don't want to drag this on too long but I've experienced this user hassle on other mailman lists.
let's say the footer were more explicit and the user did find the http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l page, the issue here is that the usability of that page is far from optimal: there is no specifc heading on the page called 'unsubscribe'...and that's exactly what you're looking for!
It might be too much for a hassled, nervous, impatient user with temporarily (or permanently) impaired concentration, to go through the contents under the heading of 'MediaWiki-l Subscribers' in order to finally read the penultimate line and word 'unsubscribe'. To make things worse it's a choice not a simple statement; it says 'Unsubscribe or edit options'
Finally the essential String 'Unsubscribe' is not translated into Dutch.
Just one single-state, prominent, correctly translated eject button should do the job.
This said, please note that I am bending over backwards to put myself into other people's shoes.
Gustav
On 8 Sep 2005 at 17:55, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thursday 08 September 2005 02:17 pm, Wynandus DeVaal wrote:
I don,t want to receive anymore Emails