Am 2009-10-30 18:37:42, schrieb AG: > Is it just me or does this list seem to receive a surprising amount > of messages requesting to be unsubscribed?
Thats normal here, because most are Windows Users... and they do not
know better and have to ask there Imperator in Redmont how to do things.
> I belong to over 20
> other lists from a range of (computing-related) fields and this is
> easily the list with the highest unsubscription-related traffic from
> this albeit limited sample, as exemplified by Mr Considine's
> repeated plea below.
Hmmm, I am on 77 Debian Mailinglists, and a bund of others... arround
130 in total and you are right, this list has more unsubscribe requests
as the other 129 lists together.
> At the risk of coming across as elitist or starting some kind of
> flame-war, I wonder if this is because with the exception of a
> couple of multi-platform lists, my other subscriptions exclude MS
> Windows and MS Office users by the nature of the OS used (GNU/Linux
> and *BSD). The multi-platform lists (with the exception of this
> one) concern programming, so are platform generic, but are likely to
> attract a higher percentage of "computer-aware" users. OOo users is
> the one cross-platform list I belong to that is for the user rather
> than a programmer demographic and is also the one most plagued as
> described.
FullACK!
> For users to be unable to
> read footers on emails and then to follow directions ... ?
I think, it is time for a "Computer-Driver-License"...
> What I am wondering then is whether or not others can confirm or
> undermine my observation that the extent of "unsub me pls" type
I can only CONFIRM!
> The relationship
> between MS user and computing awareness is the topic of another
> discussion perhaps, but not here.
Hmmm... :-D
> Personally I would suggest that the standard footer be augmented
> with the additional notice that all posts with the subject line
> "unsubscribe me" is sent post haste to /dev/null . Harsh but fair,
> cuts down bandwidth, list noise and solves a request that no-one on
> this list is capable of resolving anyway, besides by pointing out
> what is already blindingly obvious.
I have nothing against... Even if I have already procmailfilters on my
Courier-IMAP and Intranet Server.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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