Charlie Kester wrote:
> I know the answer is already on the website. But for some
> reason people aren't going there to read it before asking
> the question here.

It's a good suggestion, but the fundamental problem is that someone who
loses interest in the mailing list just stops reading. They then spend a
few weeks deleting stuff, then they post here. They don't notice the
footer on each mail, and I don't think they would notice a FAQ.

I realise that people won't notice the following, but I've just added a
small "how to unsubscribe" item on:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/web/vim-information

Old timers will know to look in the header of any message, where you
find:
  List-Unsubscribe:
  <http://googlegroups.com/group/vim_use/subscribe>,
  <mailto:[email protected]>

Perhaps we could change the footer to:
  You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
  http://www.vim.org/maillist.php has information and how to unsubscribe

Having two names ([email protected] + [email protected]) might confuse
some people (they wouldn't expect information about "[email protected]" to be
relevant for a Google Group). It might help to add a line with the
Google Group name, but that risks getting too wordy.

In short, I don't think there's a solution (however, I've kept your
suggestion in case we want to reconsider a monthly/weekly short-FAQ
about the list).

John


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