[plug] unsubscribe

[Damion Hill]

I suspect the cynicism from the 'vocal' list members come from the 
fact that instructions are sent to the new subscriber when they 
subscribe or at least they were when I joined in June '98.

One of the common answers to queries on this list is 'man ...' 
pointing the person in the right direction to find what they need. 
With the subscription instructions being explicity sent to the user, 
unsubscribing is as easy as refering back to the email (just like 
'man plug'!).

Of course, not being able to find unsubscribe details on the website 
but being able to see pretty good subscription instructions might 
prompt you to try 'unsubscribe' as the command?

I do agree though that unsubscribe instructions as a reminder on 
the web page would help those not so familiar with mailing list 
procedures. The responses I have seen on this list to those 'unsub' 
requests is very tame compared to the flamings I used to see on 
other lists.

Just my $0.02.

Damion.

On 7 Jan 01, at 14:13, navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:

> The replies that Jeff received to his list request to unsubscribe were
> impolite in particular telling him to follow the instructions on
> unsubscribing. I looked on the current web site on the list.phtml page
> and it very informatively tells one how to be a part of this list
> (sometimes slanging match) BUT the method of unsubscribing is not
> shown. When the webmaster placed the current web site for all to see
> and invited comment I recall I said then that there is no instructions
> on now to separate from the list.

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Damion Hill
dhill at wantree.com.au