Re: Howto Unsubscribe

[Oliver Bienert]

Am Mit, 26 Jan 2000 schrieb Riyad Kalla:
> How do I unsubscribe from this list? I've checked the gimp.org section and
> the archives of the list and all I can find is people making FUN of others
> trying to unsubscribe, but not actually how to do it. Instead of flooding
> this list with crap emails, I was hoping to get it right the first time and
> not annoy the hell out of everyone.
> 
> Riyad Kalla

Here are the instructions for (un)subscribing:
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Howto Unsubscribe

[Riyad Kalla]

How do I unsubscribe from this list? I've checked the gimp.org section and
the archives of the list and all I can find is people making FUN of others
trying to unsubscribe, but not actually how to do it. Instead of flooding
this list with crap emails, I was hoping to get it right the first time and
not annoy the hell out of everyone.

Riyad Kalla

re: howto unsubscribe

[Ian Boreham]

At 17:48 20/01/00 +, Giles Ellis wrote:
>Isn't there any  way the maintainer of this list can append instructions to
>each message posted?  People obviously don't save the instructions they
>received when they subscribed...

A laudable policy, and one which every mailing list should implement.
However, putting my cynical hat on, I suspect it won't help very much. The
rate of "unsubscribe" and "How do I unsubscribe?" messages doesn't seem to
be any less on mailing lists where it is done. I will leave the reasons for
this as an exercise to the reader.

If anyone tries to unsubscribe in future, and follows the instructions but
is unable to escape, make this clear in your "How...?" mails, to avoid
being confused for one of the people who doesn't read instructions, or
doesn't read them carefully enough. (NOTE: "unsubscribe" messages are
almost NEVER sent to the mailing list address itself.)

This confusion causes a flurry of complaints and then a flurry of
justifications and recriminations, which just bores everybody.

Incidentally, you can always filter messages with subjects containing
"unsubscribe" into the Trash, if you're happy to miss updates of
instructions on how to unsubscribe.

Regards,



Ian

re: howto unsubscribe

[Giles Ellis]

How many times this week/month/year are people going to ask how to
unsubscribe and other people going to print instructions??  It's beginning
to get a bit silly.

Isn't there any  way the maintainer of this list can append instructions to
each message posted?  People obviously don't save the instructions they
received when they subscribed...


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