On 03 April, 2013 - Jillian C. York wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > > > > > Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part of > > the > > > e-mail that no-one reads) at the top of the e-mail so everyone sees it? > > > > No, because then *everybody* has to see it. > > -- > > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > Which is worse: > > > - Everyone having to read the footer, or > - Several idiotic "how do I unsubscribe from this?" emails per week? > > Serious question. > I have not seen several per week. Rather the volume seems to be one every couple of weeks. Doing a little archive digging, I find only one sent during all of March, though I admittedly only looked at the subjects and thus might have missed a few that showed up as replies in other threads.
I would argue that having a header added to each and every mail is significantly worse, though really, this mailing list is somewhat lacking in standard mailing list practises (do not top-post! ;) ) In conclusion: you are severely overstating the problem, and the solution of having the footer as header is annoying, non-standard and completely unnecessary for the slightly more tech-savvy users of this list. Best regards -- Petter Ericson ([email protected]) -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
