[libreoffice-users] Re: Unsubscribe

Le 2011-01-31 10:16, Charles Marcus a écrit :
> On 2011-01-30 5:21 PM, James Wilde wrote:
> > I hope there's a good reason why unsubscribers are told to send a
> > message to users+help instead of instead of users+unsubscribe.  But
> > at least Phil should have got a message back that he can read.
>
> I argued against this decision when it was made.
>
> The vast majority of people who will click on that link to get
> instructions, want to unsubscribe, not read all of the other instructions.
>
> Each list should have TWO links - one, to actually send the unsubscribe
> message, and then the second, to get ADDITIONAL instructions if desired.
>
> Requiring people to first get instructions just creates confusion and
> dramatically increases the number of 'ubsubscribe me now!' complaints to
> the list.

I also agree.

When I had originally documented the "Get Involved" section of the 
website (pre-David website), one of lines that I had gotten the most 
off-line "thank you" was the line that I had added:

Unsubscribe: users+unsubscribe@libreoffice.org

I had added this for each of the mailists (with the appropriate mailist 
group of course). I received many off-line emails thanking me for adding 
these lines as they apparently said that this had been a longstanding 
request on the OOo mailists which just seemed to be ignored for no 
apparent reason.

When people want to unsubscribe they are no longer interested in 
receiving messages, so we should give them as direct as possible way to 
unsubscribe. A simple link to a mailto: is all they want.

Cheers

Marc


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