On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:22 AM Russell Bradberry <rbradbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This conversation comes up quite a bit as it pertains to a lot of Apache
> groups, especially the Cassandra groups.  I've advocated in the past for a
> more standard way of unsubscribing, such as responding with "UNSUBSCRIBE"
> in the subject line or body, or more of a link-based approach rather than a
> special email account you need to send a message to.

FWIW, it seems the List-Unsubscribe header is being set.  For
supported clients (most of the big ones apparently), this is supposed
to result in a clickable unsubscribe link.  Gmail is supposed to be
one of the providers that supports this, and AFAICT the link is
supposed to appear to the right of the address in each message, but
this isn't working for me.

> Thing is unless you subscribe to a lot of Apache mailing lists, this is not
> a normal way of subscribing and unsubscribing from distributions.  So, from
> a user perspective, it's easy to see how people can get confused as to how
> to actually unsubscribe.

YMMV, I guess.  I'm subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that work
identically (and have been for years).  I've never had an issue, and
cannot think of another list where so many struggle with how to
unsubscribe.  It's why I always circle back to wondering what is
different here.  Is the list software buggy or less forgiving (i.e. do
people try and fail)?  Are we not presenting this information
prominently enough on the site and/or are search engines not indexing
it properly?

> Which is why I linked to the Apache Cassandra
> community page as an effort to point folks in the right direction that may
> be wondering the same thing.

I applaud the intent, but a lot of people have been tilting at this
particular windmill for a while, and it doesn't seem to help.

> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 9:10 AM Eric Evans <john.eric.ev...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:47 AM Russell Bradberry <rbradbe...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Responses like this aren't helpful.  I can't even remember how I
> > subscribed
> > > to this list as it was nearly 8 years ago.
> >
> > The answer might be.  We seem have a lot of people who struggle to
> > unsubscribe and I am curious as to why that is.  Is it just as
> > difficult for people to subscribe (and we're not aware because we
> > aren't seeing the questions)?  Did they try and fail?
> >
> > > To answer the question, you can send a message to
> > > dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org. Full instructions can be found
> > here:
> > > http://cassandra.apache.org/community/
> > >
> > > -Russ
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:20 AM Eric Evans <john.eric.ev...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > How did you subscribe?
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 9:24 AM Sundaramoorthy, Natarajan
> > > > <natarajan_sundaramoor...@optum.com> wrote:
> > > > >
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