Isn't the point to avoid people writing to the list in a desperate attempt to get off it? What's wrong with making the instructions to unsubscribe clear? Does it somehow lower the cachet of the list or something?
On 9 Sep 2005 at 18:27, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Friday 09 September 2005 08:08 am, Rowan Collins wrote:
On 09/09/05, Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca wrote:
On Thursday 08 September 2005 06:54 pm, B. Magilavy 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."
Every message already has a List-Unsubscribe header...
And this is visible where in the average mail UA?
kmail by pressing v, two or three mouse-strokes in just about everything else graphical, a single keystroke in just about everything else.
The suggestion was to make the method "clearer to people who are not familiar with the conventions", not "locatable if you're geeky enough to view the raw headers of an e-mail message".
Just about anybody that has to sift through an abuse@ role address can tell you that just about any idiot is capable of doing this, even if they can't follow a chain of Received headers if their life depended on it and for all they care, mail servers run on magic and sunshine. I would hope anybody considering implementing a collection of scripts downloaded off the Internet and the know-how to pull it off would understand at least as much about email as the average layman. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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