On Monday 15 August 2011 09:51:03 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:32:20 +0300 > Stan Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Stan, > > > It might help, actually, if instead of requiring the hopeful > > escapee to send off an email in order to learn how to send off a > > second emall, > > You'd think, wouldn't you. Trouble is, the perpetrators of such > unsub faux pas make the gaff because they can't be arsed to read the > footer at all. As a result, for them, the content is irrelevant.
That is exactly why they should not be confronted with this superfluous step, since there is not reason not to simplify the procedure. You would still have errors, but they would be far fewer. Why is that wrong? The people who are experiencing the problem (or, as you might put it, are inflicting the problem on us) are (as has been pointed out) largely office type people, who may be having their first exposure to lists and how to use them. If you want to just solve the problem of getting them unsubscribed, you will have to make it as obvious as possible, which is why all other lists, as far as I can remember, have the unsubscribe instruction up front, not hidden behind an instruction to get the instruction (one might caall that "the obstruction"). If you prefer to ignore their naivete, and to continue to confront them with this unnecessary barrier, you can have the joy of feeling superior to them (which is what you are doing), with all the pleasant buzz that this may give you, and have a laugh each and every time there is one of these plaints on the list -- and the annoyance will continue. I do not know who is responsible administration of the list, but my hope is that he will wake up one morning, and figure out what the less juvenile choice should be. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
