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[Jillian C. York]

Oh, I'm in agreement that top-posting is awful.  And I may be conflating
this mailing list with others (in overstating the problem), but it is
enough of an annoyance that I would consider harsh measures ;)

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Petter Ericson <pettter at acc.umu.se> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Petter Ericson (pettter at acc.umu.se)
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