Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-18 Thread Csaba Nagy
I wouldn't mind terribly getting an occasional clippy message like: It looks like you're trying to unsubscribe from this mailing list. Would you like some help with doing that? As opposed to a message You've been unsubscribed After sending something about slony to the list... Would

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-18 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would that work for most people? Yes, that's reasonable. Automatically unsubscribing is not... Um, can we close this thread now? First, the fix for this list was already put in place some time ago, so this is totally academic. Second, I'm tired of

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-18 Thread Csaba Nagy
... which still doesn't cover RE translated in most of the world's languages, which I'm sure occasionally pop up from people who use localized mail clients. * ! ^Subject:.*(Re|AW|Antwort|Reply|Reponse|Sv): Better? The point was that you will never ever be able to cover all the

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 03:23, Csaba Nagy wrote: ... which still doesn't cover RE translated in most of the world's languages, which I'm sure occasionally pop up from people who use localized mail clients. * ! ^Subject:.*(Re|AW|Antwort|Reply|Reponse|Sv): Better? The point was

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-11 10:23:25, schrieb Csaba Nagy: You can eliminate such things by checking the Subject line for Re: AW: SV: and such. :0 * ! ^Subject:.*Re: * ^Subject:.*(subscribe|subscribel|suscribe) /dev/null ... which still doesn't cover RE translated in most of the world's

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-11 Thread Csaba Nagy
You can eliminate such things by checking the Subject line for Re: AW: SV: and such. :0 * ! ^Subject:.*Re: * ^Subject:.*(subscribe|subscribel|suscribe) /dev/null ... which still doesn't cover RE translated in most of the world's languages, which I'm sure occasionally pop up from people

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-07 17:26:15, schrieb Csaba Nagy: Or what about automatically unsubscribing at that point? (In spite of other ways it's awful, mailman does that rather well.) ... and voila, you (and now myself) could have been unsubscribed yourself on this mail... it's not that hard to have any

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-08 Thread Csaba Nagy
Or what about automatically unsubscribing at that point? (In spite of other ways it's awful, mailman does that rather well.) ... and voila, you (and now myself) could have been unsubscribed yourself on this mail... it's not that hard to have any specific string by mistake on your subject

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an explanatory message about the right way to unsubscribe. There's no reason the

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-08 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I don't think we should do anything about it. It's not really a serious problem. Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-08 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Actually it is quite ridiculous that we expect someone to read the mail headers. But relatively reasonable to assume that one could unsubscribe if they can figure out how to subscribe.. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an explanatory message about the right way to unsubscribe. There's no reason the rest of us should be

[GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread rama krishna
please unsubscribe from this thank u

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to rama krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: please unsubscribe from this thank u Instructions are in the mail headers of each message: List-Archive: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-ID: pgsql-general.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bill Moran wrote: In response to rama krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: please unsubscribe from this thank u Instructions are in the mail headers of each message: List-Archive: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-ID:

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Moran wrote: Instructions are in the mail headers of each message: Actually it is quite ridiculous that we expect someone to read the mail headers. Those headers are really there for mail programs to read. On my MUA (a several-years-old

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Moran wrote: Instructions are in the mail headers of each message: Actually it is quite ridiculous that we expect someone to read the mail headers. Those headers are really there for mail programs to read. On my MUA (a

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Moran wrote: Instructions are in the mail headers of each message: Actually it is quite ridiculous that we expect someone to read the mail headers. I don't find it so.

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Erik Jones
There are good reasons why that is not a feature found in many popular email clients. The biggest of which is that if it was people would use it all the time and spammers would abuse it as a way to cull current email addresses. As a matter of fact, most large esp's encourage their clients to

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Moran wrote: Instructions are in the mail headers of each message: Actually it is quite ridiculous that we expect someone to read the mail headers. I don't

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: In any case, we also expend bandwidth on a couple of footer TIPs that remind people how to unsubscribe. Maybe one of them should explicitly say that mailing to the list is not the way. One of them talks about unregister, because of which you'd think we're already covered.

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I don't think we should do anything about it. It's not really a serious problem. Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an explanatory message about the right way to

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I don't think we should do anything about it. It's not really a serious problem. Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an explanatory message

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-08-30 14:11:11 -0400: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I don't think we should do anything about it. It's not really a serious problem. Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-08-30 12:32:21 -0500: There are good reasons why that is not a feature found in many popular email clients. The biggest of which is that if it was people would use it all the time and spammers would abuse it as a way to cull current email addresses. IOW

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-08-30 14:11:11 -0400: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I don't think we should do anything about it. It's not really a serious problem. Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane opined: Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an explanatory message about the right way to unsubscribe. There's no reason the rest of us should be

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 14:14, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I don't think we should do anything about it. It's not really a serious problem. Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages