I disagree that this message belongs at the top... That is rare in bulk mail I receive, and seems unnecessarily intrusive. Addition of the word "Unsubscribe" to clarify the function of the link seems in line with current use. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On December 1, 2014 6:15:47 AM PST, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >Thank you for all the thoughts about alleviating these problems, >both to us and the "newbies" (or otherwise e-mail clueless >subscribers). > >>>>>> Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> >>>>>> on Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:37:22 -0600 writes: > >> Following on Rich and Peter, is it practical for the list to put it >at the top then, before the R-message? > > Something like: > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the list: see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >Indeed, that is possible for mailman lists as I see. >It looks ugly to me but I have been brought up in the age where >civilized letters started (in English) with 'Dear ..' and >e-mails were electronic letters.. and that age has gone... > >Shall we do that in spite of esthetic reasons? >and keep the current footer? > >Martin > >> And then continue on for each R message. Because top-posting has >pretty much taken over, the best efforts of puritans notwithstanding, >putting stuff at the bottom is unlikely to evoke much attention, and >especially so in our 140-character-3-second attention-span world. > >> As an aside, if I were the OP, and wanted to unsubscribe, the volume >of the e-mail messages on this topic alone would have been punishment >enough for the original post:-) > > > Best wishes, > > Ranjan > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.