Folks,

Take this off line. This type of rather mundane email being tossed
around is getting rather boring and taking up a lot of email.

-Ernie Gargas

On 4/9/2015 11:38 AM, Eric Weddington wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> What I find ironic and deplorable is that this entire discussion about
> how to unsubscribe from a mailing list is on a mailing list about Open
> Source.
> 
> How many of you people have actually worked on Open Source projects?
> Just about every Open Source source project I've ever seen has a mailing
> list or several. For developers, for users, for repository commits and
> so on. You learn very quickly how to subscribe, change your settings,
> unsubscribe, search the archives, etc. It's where decisions are being
> made, patches and bugs discussed and pretty much the lifeblood of the
> community.
> 
> These people that just yell on this list "unscribe (sic) me!" would be
> damn near flamed on any real open source project. You're expected to do
> a little homework on your own to figure out how to do this. RTFM. STFW.
> How hard is it? Not everything is just handed to you when you're a
> member of an Open Source project.
> 
> How ironic that we have exactly that case here on a mailing list about
> Open Source. How sad. Some things never change.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Striker Leggette <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     Fresh subscriber, first time responder here.
> 
>     By "e-mail", do you mean the message thread/chain?  If so, they would
>     definitely need to ask to be removed from the list of CC'd addresses.
> 
>     If you mean "e-mail list", then the links at the bottom of a list bounce
>     would direct users directly to the list they wish to unsubscribe from.
>     You can also see which list e-mails spawn from by looking at the
>     subject: [Osdc-list].  Note, that adding the list id to the subject is
>     optional for the list administrators.  I imagine this is done to allow
>     easier filtering.
> 
>     IMHO, the system cannot be to blame because mailman cannot change how
>     your e-mail client handles the messages it receives.  Links will be in
>     the same place within an e-mail thread whether they are directly
>     pointing to the 'unsubscribe button' or not.  In the case of mailman,
>     however, authentication is required in order to unsubscribe, so links
>     such as the ones that are one-click-unsubscribe are not possible -
>     mailman does not generate 'token links'.
> 
>     I believe the point has been made, however.  Perhaps we can let this
>     thread die. :)
> 
>     On 04/09/2015 01:15 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
>     > The problem might be people don't know with which email they are
>     > subscribed. Would be great to have that info there as well and even
>     > better to have a "one click and unsubscribe" link like mailchimp
>     and co
>     >
>     > In general I wouldn't blame the customer, I prefer to blame the
>     system.
>     >
> 
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