Okay, so I work on trying to make using the Team.Net email lists
as painless as possible. Sure, there are policies and procedures some
folks might quibble about, but all in all things go pretty smoothly.
Take, for example, unsubscribing. The Mailman list manager makes it
fairly obvious. Each message from the list has RFC2369 headers, which
most modern, intelligent mailers can present to the user. These headers
include lines such as
List-Unsubscribe: <http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys>,
<mailto:healeys-request@autox.team.net?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys>
List-Post: <mailto:healeys@autox.team.net>
List-Help: <mailto:healeys-request@autox.team.net?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys>,
<mailto:healeys-request@autox.team.net?subject=subscribe>
Such info can be helpful to some, but is usually not displayed by
default, so that can be a bit daunting to those who have a fear of
technology or some such.
One thing that each and every list message includes are those lines
down at the bottom that most of you ignore. Like the one that I
recently modified to make as obvious as possible:
Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/you@your.domain
Click on that, then click the resulting unsubscribe box, and there you go.
Plus on the morning of the 4th of every month Mailman sends out a
subscription reminder message which includes a link to the unsubscribe
page. So easy a caveman can do it, right?
Well, I get this message which reads, in part:
This is my 15th request.
Please remove me from HealeysMail List.
Do any of you have any suggestions as to how I can make it any easier for
people like this to be able to manage their own subscriptions? Or am I
just stuck for time and all eternity with braindead human debris that has
to have their Net.Mommy wipe their Net.Ass for them?
mjb.
ps: I wonder where the previous 14 messages went?
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