At 01:22 PM 5/18/00 , Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:33:08AM -0500,
> Troy Frericks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody given an explanation as to why this simple change has not been
>> implemented on this list. Kinds of seems silly that it has not been done,
>> especially given the extra messages not having it generates.
>
>Because it doesn't help much. For a lot of lists, checking the subject
>and body for things that appeared to be list requests and bouncing them
>makes sense. For a technical list about email you want to be careful
>about how you do that.
Bruno,
You lost me. The reply was regarding adding a footer.
With the number of "Nubie" requests on this list, I think your argument is
invalid. All I can say is that about every two weeks there is somebody
asking how to get off of the list, and several more posts follow that
asking to not post such requests to this list, some answer the question,
several have ended with the phrase "sheesh".
Why don't we TRY ADDING A FOOTER WITH UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS TO EACH
MESSAGE, just TRY it? What is there to be afraid of?
>
>I wonder how many of these people subscribe by clicking on a mailto link
>on some web page without understanding how the request is being made.
>Getting rid of such links might make it a lot harder for people who
>really don't want to be on this list to get on it.
