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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Osdc-list mailing list | This is a place for our readers, writers, > moderators and artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com > and otherwise do the work that makes this a community practicing the > open source way. > > Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: > http://opensource.com/email-newsletter > > Send a message: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Change preferences: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list > Unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Osdc-list mailing list | This is a place for our readers, writers, moderators > and artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com and otherwise do the > work that makes this a community practicing the open source way. > > Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter > > Send a message: [email protected] > Change preferences: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list > Unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list >
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