Hi :)
It's not a confirmation email. It's the instructions on how to un-subscribe.
The confirmation email would be after following the instructions given in the
first reply to the request to be unsubscribed.
Anyway, even tho that might seem obvious there have been quite a few people that
have been confused by all that, especially since the
unsubscribe-instructions-email often ended up in the spam/junk folder. However
good a system is it's still a fail if people don't understand it, even if that
is through their stupidity or whatever.
A coffee shop had a note in a big clear display telling customers "Do not open
the display" as the staff would get the product hygienically from the open
side. Still, a lot of people would open the display completely failing to see
the sign. The sign was replaced with ones with larger and larger fonts but as
it increased less people noticed it. I replaced it with a sign in tiny
lettering saying "Top Secret: Do not open the display" and suddenly no-one
opened the display. I, of course, got fired because i didn't fit in with
corporate thinking.
Regards from
Tom :)
________________________________
From: Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 15:48:50
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to unsubscribe
On 2011-07-20, Tom Davies wrote:
On 07/20/2011 01:23 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
since we received several reports about problems with unsubscribing, we have
compiled a comprehensive help text at
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Is there another list on the planet that needs a "comprehensive help text" to
help literate people unsubscribe from it?
[...]
This list is dealing with normal office workers from all around the world, even
America, and quite a few people have had trouble accessing the emailed help.
People unsubscribe because they don't want emails and the first thing we expect
of them is to deal with is yet another email! We also expect them to be
patient
and that's not a quality i have often noticed in office workers, except me of
course ;) lol
Well, if someone does not expect a confirmation email, then I'm afraid
that person is misunderstanding how email works and how easy it is to
forge an email (which can be an unsubscription request).
Also, as that howto says,
,----
| The process is very similar to the one you had to use to subscribe to
| the list in first place.
`----
So the subscriber can't say (s)he has never dealt with confirmations
before...
The only issue I see is that both the mailing-list signature and the
List-Unsubscribe header have the +help address, instead of
+unsubscribe. But I guess there must be some reason for this, like too
many people simply not being able to manage the "mail this address then
reply to the confirmation" thing.
--
Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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