[liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

[Petter Ericson]

On 03 April, 2013 - Jillian C. York wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
> >
> > > Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part of
> > the
> > > e-mail that no-one reads) at the top of the e-mail so everyone sees it?
> >
> > No, because then *everybody* has to see it.
> > --
> > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by
> > emailing moderator at companys at stanford.edu or changing your settings at
> > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
> >
> Which is worse:
> 
> 
>    - Everyone having to read the footer, or
>    - Several idiotic "how do I unsubscribe from this?" emails per week?
> 
> Serious question.
> 
I have not seen several per week. Rather the volume seems to be one
every couple of weeks. Doing a little archive digging, I find only one
sent during all of March, though I admittedly only looked at the
subjects and thus might have missed a few that showed up as replies in
other threads.

I would argue that having a header added to each and every mail is
significantly worse, though really, this mailing list is somewhat
lacking in standard mailing list practises (do not top-post! ;) )

In conclusion: you are severely overstating the problem, and the
solution of having the footer as header is annoying, non-standard and
completely unnecessary for the slightly more tech-savvy users of this
list.

Best regards

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Petter Ericson (pettter at acc.umu.se)