<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?>
If you figure how to deal with on line, let me know and maybe I can try it
in the real world :)
There will always be early adopters, late adopters, over my dead body
adopters and those who should only use a typewriter.
Ira Erbs
Technology trainer/instructor
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com> wrote:
> 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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I Erbs
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