Oh, and of course, for those asking how to unsubscribe, here's the canonical reference on how to ask smart questions:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Quite useful. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Eric Weddington <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > What I find ironic and deplorable is that this entire discussion about how > to unsubscribe from a mailing list is on a mailing list about Open Source. > > How many of you people have actually worked on Open Source projects? Just > about every Open Source source project I've ever seen has a mailing list or > several. For developers, for users, for repository commits and so on. You > learn very quickly how to subscribe, change your settings, unsubscribe, > search the archives, etc. It's where decisions are being made, patches and > bugs discussed and pretty much the lifeblood of the community. > > These people that just yell on this list "unscribe (sic) me!" would be > damn near flamed on any real open source project. You're expected to do a > little homework on your own to figure out how to do this. RTFM. STFW. How > hard is it? Not everything is just handed to you when you're a member of an > Open Source project. > > How ironic that we have exactly that case here on a mailing list about > Open Source. How sad. Some things never change. > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Striker Leggette <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Fresh subscriber, first time responder here. >> >> By "e-mail", do you mean the message thread/chain? If so, they would >> definitely need to ask to be removed from the list of CC'd addresses. >> >> If you mean "e-mail list", then the links at the bottom of a list bounce >> would direct users directly to the list they wish to unsubscribe from. >> You can also see which list e-mails spawn from by looking at the >> subject: [Osdc-list]. Note, that adding the list id to the subject is >> optional for the list administrators. I imagine this is done to allow >> easier filtering. >> >> IMHO, the system cannot be to blame because mailman cannot change how >> your e-mail client handles the messages it receives. Links will be in >> the same place within an e-mail thread whether they are directly >> pointing to the 'unsubscribe button' or not. In the case of mailman, >> however, authentication is required in order to unsubscribe, so links >> such as the ones that are one-click-unsubscribe are not possible - >> mailman does not generate 'token links'. >> >> I believe the point has been made, however. Perhaps we can let this >> thread die. :) >> >> On 04/09/2015 01:15 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> > The problem might be people don't know with which email they are >> > subscribed. Would be great to have that info there as well and even >> > better to have a "one click and unsubscribe" link like mailchimp and co >> > >> > In general I wouldn't blame the customer, I prefer to blame the system. >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Osdc-list mailing list | This is a place for our readers, writers, >> moderators and artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com and >> otherwise do the work that makes this a community practicing the open >> source way. >> >> Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter >> >> Send a message: [email protected] >> Change preferences: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list >> Unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list >> > >
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