As a list admin for several dozen lists, I can vouch for how annoying it is that people can handle a multi step process of subscribing to a list, but can not manage to "find" the list page, that is listed at the bottom of every mail.
Plus, the unsubscribe messages are usually rude, as is the one below. If this was a list that I administered, and I had received a unicast mail, worded like the one below, I would have still responded in kind. If you're smart enough to be able to sign up for a list, you should be smart enough to be able to un-subscribe from it.
Of course, if you have trouble differentiating textmate from textmate-owners, then, maybe you have other issues :)
I guess my point is: The list admins probably get up to a dozen similar requests a week from people having trouble with subscription. And that does not include people who violate the list in other ways (sending spam, posting from non-subscribed accounts, having huge cc lists, etc). I feel they should get a little slack when it comes to dealing with time-wasting requests. IMHO, it's a great time to vent.
Just my $.02 worth,
-Dave
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jim Perry
<james.perry@frontiernet.net> wrote:
tough crowd.
On Sep 12, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> Unsubscribe yourself! Use the link that's at the bottom of every
> single list email (http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate).
> Also, thanks for wasting the entire lists' time with your
> unnecessary message.
> - Chris
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Yaniv Stopnitzky <yaniverse@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>> The vast majority of discussion is irrelevant to me. PLEASE
>> UNSUBSCRIBE.
>>
>>
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>>
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>> textmate@lists.macromates.com
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