Oh, I'm in agreement that top-posting is awful. And I may be conflating this mailing list with others (in overstating the problem), but it is enough of an annoyance that I would consider harsh measures ;)
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Petter Ericson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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