Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribe

Hi :)
We don't really get a LOT of problems.  Perhaps 2 or 3 people in a month?  We 
all notice and their posts are glaringly obvious but usually it's very easy to 
fix.  One of us just copies&pastes the guide address from the new footer into 
the main part of the message.  


Note that the footer did change a couple of weeks ago.  It's not perfect but it 
is a bit better imo.  I still largely agree with Stan's statement.
Regards from
Tom :)



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From: Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 16 August, 2011 0:07:41
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribe

On Monday 15 August 2011 09:51:03 Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:32:20 +0300
> Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Stan,
>
> > 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,
>
> You'd think, wouldn't you.  Trouble is, the perpetrators of such
> unsub faux pas make the gaff because they can't be arsed to read the
> footer at all.  As a result, for them, the content is irrelevant.

That is exactly why they should not be confronted with this superfluous 
step, since there is not reason not to simplify the procedure. You would 
still have errors, but they would be far fewer. Why is that wrong?

The people who are experiencing the problem (or, as you might put it, 
are inflicting the problem on us) are (as has been pointed out) largely 
office type people, who may be having their first exposure to lists and 
how to use them. If you want to just solve the problem of getting them 
unsubscribed, you will have to make it as obvious as possible, which is 
why all other lists, as far as I can remember, have the unsubscribe 
instruction up front, not hidden behind an instruction to get the 
instruction (one might caall that "the obstruction").

If you prefer to ignore their naivete, and to continue to confront them 
with this unnecessary barrier, you can have the joy of feeling superior 
to them (which is what you are doing), with all the pleasant buzz that 
this may give you, and have a laugh each and every time there is one of 
these plaints on the list -- and the annoyance will continue.

I do not know who is responsible administration of the list, but my hope 
is that he will wake up one morning, and figure out what the less 
juvenile choice should be.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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