[Healeys] List admin suggestions wanted

Carlos Cruz healey3000bn7 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 16 20:27:49 MST 2010


Mark,

I'm not sure how you can make unsubscribing any easier than it already is, however I do have a few suggestions that might make the list a bit more lister-friendly.  Basically the introduction a couple of new list commands including:

>>List-FridaySucks - Ensures any humous emails are not delivered thus making your Friday like a Monday - Sucks!
List-DreadEd - Automatically eliminates any emails from Ed or any emails containing EdBonics.
Thank you in advance for implementing the latter of the two first.  I of course wouldn't be using the first - keep the Friday Funnies!  In Ed's immortal words... <VB GRIN>  OMG WTF ROFLMAO <GRIN> <BURP> <FART> HEHEHEHE!

Cheers,
Carlos







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From: Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 9:16:12 PM
Subject: [Healeys] List admin suggestions wanted

Okay, so I work on trying to make using the Team.Net email lists
as painless as possible.  Sure, there are policies and procedures some
folks might quibble about, but all in all things go pretty smoothly.

Take, for example, unsubscribing.  The Mailman list manager makes it
fairly obvious.  Each message from the list has RFC2369 headers, which
most modern, intelligent mailers can present to the user.  These headers
include lines such as

List-Unsubscribe: <http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys>,
       <mailto:healeys-request at autox.team.net?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys>
List-Post: <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
List-Help: <mailto:healeys-request at autox.team.net?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys>,
       <mailto:healeys-request at autox.team.net?subject=subscribe>


Such info can be helpful to some, but is usually not displayed by
default, so that can be a bit daunting to those who have a fear of
technology or some such.

One thing that each and every list message includes are those lines
down at the bottom that most of you ignore.  Like the one that I
recently modified to make as obvious as possible:

Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/you@your.domain

Click on that, then click the resulting unsubscribe box, and there you go.

Plus on the morning of the 4th of every month Mailman sends out a
subscription reminder message which includes a link to the unsubscribe
page.  So easy a caveman can do it, right?

Well, I get this message which reads, in part:

   This is my 15th request.

   Please remove me from HealeysMail List.



Do any of you have any suggestions as to how I can make it any easier for
people like this to be able to manage their own subscriptions?  Or am I
just stuck for time and all eternity with braindead human debris that has
to have their Net.Mommy wipe their Net.Ass for them?


mjb.

ps: I wonder where the previous 14 messages went?
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