Any mailing list which respects its recipients makes unsubscribing as
easy as possible. If users are having trouble doing so, it's clearly not
easy enough.
I think putting a directly link in every message is certainly the right
thing to do.
On 11/29/2014 09:14 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 30/11/14 14:16, John Sorkin wrote:
I don't see a link that is labeled "unsubscribe".
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On Nov 29, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:
In what way would that be unlike the link that is already there?
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On November 29, 2014 4:09:29 PM PST, John Sorkin
<jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
Requests like this appear from time to time. Would it make sense to
add a link to the bottom of the email messages generated by the mail
program that is labeled and goes directly to the unsubscribe page?
Well, there is no "unsubscribe" page as such. The link given, i.e.
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
takes you to the primary help page. That provides a link to a (password
protected) page where you can handle all matters pertaining to your
r-help subscription, including unsubscribing.
I suppose that it might be possible to provide a link taking one
directly to this second page, but:
(1) It would add clutter (I'm sure we don't want to delete the link to
the primary help page).
(2) The password protection might get complicated; I don't know about
such matters.
(3) I don't think we want to waste time and resources helping people who
are too stupid and illiterate to find their way to the unsubscribe
facility on the basis of what is already provided. They shouldn't be
R users in the first place. One needs at least two grey cells to rub
together to deal with R.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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