Re: unsubscribe
On Monday 04 April 2005 12:05, SigmaX wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Monday 04 April 2005 06:28, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>If it would have worked, why do we have such a repetitive thread
>>>>of folks telling us the same thing now, for the couple of months
>>>>I've been here?
>>>
>>>Well, thunderbird's threading seems to be subject-based, and I can
>>>see (counts) 10 recent messages subject 'unsubscribe', non of
>>> which are to debian-user-request, which is what the instructions
>>> state. So, I'd err on the side of idiocy, rather than broken list
>>> software.
>>
>>I only partially agree. I think the point is that the prompts at
>> the bottom of the message are being clipped off by tbirds broken
>> use of the '\n-- ' marker, and those 'signature' type things are
>> never being seen by the clueless user of tbird, so he remains
>> clueless. As to whether or not that behaviour can be turned off,
>> I don't use tbird, so I cannot advise.
>>
>>So, if these users do not see my sig, which contains a quote
>>from Ed Howdershelt and advisories to the yahoo & AOL/TW attornies,
>>then he is also never going to see those howto messages. Thats my
>>point.
>
>I use Thunderbird and I see both sigs and the unsubscribe
> instructions...
>
>SigmaX
So you are the second to confirm that tbird doesn't have that problem.
Which means we have to fall back to the clueless twit theory.
Sigh...
--
Cheers, Gene
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