[liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

[Griffin Boyce]

  My suggestion is to remove the dash-dash-space that precedes the
unsubscribe notice. Lots of people have settings that automatically hide
these footers.

~Griffin


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Jillian C. York <jilliancyork at gmail.com>wrote:

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