Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribe

On Sunday 14 August 2011 21:41:28 Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Try reading the instructions
> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
> Hopefully that might help you unsubscribe.  The lists have been
> unusually busy over the last couple of weeks but it might calm down
> a bit.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)

It might help, actually, if instead of requiring the hopeful escapee to 
send off an email in order to learn how to send off a second emall, the 
footer merely tell the fellow what email he must send in order to leave. 
That is what is done in most lists, it isn't clear why it can't be done.  
here as well. We don't need to punish people for wanting to unsubscribe.

It might be even better to say "click here to unsubscribe". Although the 
address is currently given as a link, the link is very easy to overlook, 
especially that (as has been pointed out) many users of this list are 
not technical people, and this may be their first experience with lists 
and leaving them.

Inviting people to email the help system if they have a problem is very 
nice, but it's a separate issue, and bundling the unsubscribe method 
into it only complicates matters for unsubscribing, which is always the 
chief reason for involving the administrative function in the first 
place.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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