[plug] unsubscibe (newbie's perspective)

[Ari Finander]

When I tried to move my plug mailings to a different email address,
the information contained in the original plug sign up mailing was out
of date.  Emails trying to subscribe and unsubscribe bounced as user
unknown.  If the people sending to the list encountered these
problems, I don't blame them for mailing here.  At the same time, I
couldn't get accurate info from the plug website as it was down, and
the linux.org.au site had outdated information as well.  Eventually I
was able to unsubscribe and resubscribe to a new email address (notice
I'm using start.com.au not netscape.com now) but it was way more of a
pain than it should have been, and took a significant amount of my
time.  I think it would be a VERY good idea to have a one sentence "to
be removed from" line with the CURRENT plug list remove/subscribe
email included in that single sentence.

Ari


Original message from: Mike <erazmus at wantree.com.au>
>
>At 11:25 PM 25/3/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>>  OK, now all you Linux evangelists are going to rave on about
attracting
>>newbies to further the Great Cause. But wouldnt your energies be
better
>>directed if we weed out the hopeless cases first?
>
>Its very sad you must label people this way because they showed
laziness
>at the time of sending an unsub message to the list - some people
>still don't know the difference between the mail list and the
'instruction'
>list, in fact, these days shouldn't the software be smart enough to
>weed out emails meant for the admin address - why is it so hard
>for people to come up with relational s/w or even deadpan simple s/w
>to handle unsub requests with allowances for most spelling variations
?
>
>This does not make them lazy or hopeless, unless you want to label
>yourself an arrogant elitist pedant !
>
>*grin*
>
>Mike
>
>
>.
>


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