Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unsubscribing from this list

** Reply to message from "Harold Fuchs" <hwfa.gmanenews@gmail.com> on Sat, 21
Jan 2012 00:30:56 -0000

> "Dan Lewis" <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1327076124.1667.6.camel@dan-ubuntu...
> > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:23 -0500, drew wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 14:32 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
> > > > drew wrote (20-01-12 14:25)
> > > >
> > > > > Well, maybe some of it is that we are more then happy to make it dead
> > > > > simple (one click on a web page) to get them subscribed...
> > > >
> > > > Ah, do we offer so much service :-)
> > > > Then indeed we should do the same for un-subscribing. (Or make
> > > > subscribing 'difficult')
> > >
> > > *chuckling*... well I suspect that the sad truth is that even if it is
> > > one click on a URL in the footer of each and every email, to start the
> > > unsubscribe process, there will still be someone that just can't quite
> > > manage.
> > > >   - Cor
> > > >   - http://nl.libreoffice.org
> >
> >    After just reading the instructions on how to unsubscribe from this
> > list, it seems that it is made far too complex. Having
> > To unsubscribe click: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
> > in the footer of emails. (Surprise to some, but some html emails will
> > not have this header and I don't know why.) Still we would still have to
> > remind some to reply to the confirmation email they were sent by the
> > mailing list.
> Unsubscribing by clicking a link in an e-mail assumes the person receives 
> HTML mail. Some force text only in which case the link won't work.
>
> Others *send* text only so perhaps the Unsubscribe instruction doesn't get 
> included (???) but, even if it does, it won't be clickable.
>
> There have even been people who make great contributions to this list who 
> complain about HTML e-mail.

What you say may be true for some email clients, but definitely not for all.
I'm one of those who have no use for HTML so HTML codes are stripped out as
it comes in, but the content, including links, is preserved. I just have to
double click the link to make it work.

Cliff

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