On 09/25/2009 07:24 PM, Gene Young wrote: > AG wrote: >> Wade Smart wrote: >>> Victoria Ceolin wrote: >>>> Please remove me from the mailing list. Thanks >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>> >>> Bottom of the list | >>> V >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> Given the number of times that these requests come through to the list, >> I wonder if something might be open to a common misinterpretation of the >> instructions to unsubscribe. >> >> The instructions are clear to most, but clearly not to a recurring >> minority and these all come into this list somehow. >> >> Can this be fixed by the list administrator? >> >> AG >> > > As Ron White once said "You Cain't fix stupid!" This also applies to > "lazy." There will always be a select minority who are too stupid, too > ignorant or too lazy to follow directions. I don't blame the stupid > because that is hereditary and can not be avoided. That being said, I > have no patience for the ignorant because ignorance is easily cured by a > little effort. That leads to the lazy who can not be bothered to cure > their ignorance. Unfortunately, I do not believe the administrator(s) > can fix the above.
Please keep in mind that some (many?) of these requests may have come from "users" that purchases OOo from unscrupulous scammers that sell OOo links & then promise to provide full support. What they do is charge the person for a link to OOo mirrors (some of which may be government funded universities - making this illegal in some cases), and then automatically sign the person up to this list for support. Any person that has fallen for this scam most likely has never heard of, or experienced, an email list. Next thing they know, they are flooded with OOo list messages. They then try to unsubscribe - sometimes they are successful, sometimes not. All you need to do it check the archives for examples. Another issue is the OOo support page itself: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html <quote> Users Mail List (Subscribe / Archives) OpenOffice.org Project community support provided by a network of hundreds of experienced users. You must be subscribed to post messages. </quote> While most longtime OOo list users applaud the 'Subscribe' link, I think it also is part of the problem. Again, someone that has no experience with email lists, clicks on the link (mailto:[email protected]) and gets subscribed. Rather than doing that, the link (IMO) should instead go directly to: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html where the prospective list member can read information about the list first. That, or a similar page explaining list basics, and explaining that they are about to: 1) be subscribed to possible high volume email list, and 2) clear instructions on how to unsubscribe if they find that they don't wish to continue. This page could also serve as the subscribe/unsubscribe form in the same manner used by other lists. See the following for an example: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
