My suggestion is to remove the dash-dash-space that precedes the unsubscribe notice. Lots of people have settings that automatically hide these footers.
~Griffin On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Jillian C. York <[email protected]>wrote: > 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* > > -- > 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 > -- Please note that I do not have PGP access at this time. OTR: [email protected] / [email protected]
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