On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 23 May 2010 12:21:39 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > It would be great if mailing list software could be configured so > > that only users who demonstrate they know how to unsubscribe could > > subscribe in the first place. Example: > > > > - user subscribes > > - mailing list replies: "please unsubscribe and subscribe again" > > - if user fails to do so within a configurable amount of time, > > forcibly unsubscribe him > > - if user succeeds, leave him subscribed after the second > > subscription. > > And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is > fallible, as no-one knows better than I do. > > Better for this purpose would be to require all mailing lists to operate > in the same way, but that's equally unlikely, as well as undesirable. > > > Just saying... > > What does that mean? I had a mother-in-law once who often added it to a > critical remark, and I never understood what she meant by it either.
and for the uncurable stupid, unsubscribe instructions are in the header of every mail send: List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscr...@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> oh noes! help!
