On Sonntag 23 Mai 2010, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 23 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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: > I wouldn't call people who don't know how to unsubscribe stupid, as they > most certainly aren't. > But for sure, they should know how to find that information if needed, and > all the "HELP UNSUBSCRIBE" kind of messages clearly show that they don't. > > And even your posting of the instructions now, cannot help future > subscribers who won't read your email. That's why it would probably be > better (in my opinion) to append the instructions to every message. But > this is a very old debate and was discussed to death many times in the > past, so I'm certainly not going to further it (and I hope it won't start > another endless thread). > > (this is not directed to you Volker) > > If somebody wants to flame or continue to criticize, feel free to do that, > I won't reply anyway as I have nothing more to add to what I've said > already.
yeah, 'search mailing list archive' is such a hard thing to do. Why again should laziness be tolerated?
