Why can't people unsubscribe themselves?

Matt Meinwald meinwald.1 at osu.edu
Thu Jun 6 18:09:36 PDT 2013


My initial email from Mailman provided the following ways to
unsubscribe:

1) A link to directly unsubscribe (presumably with
confirmation):

http://mail.pm.org/mailman/options/yapc/<email>?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1

2) A link to my account where I can edit options and
unsubscribe:

http://mail.pm.org/mailman/options/yapc/<email>

3) A mention that commands can be sent to the list via
yapc-request at pm.org

When I sent an email with subject "help" to
yapc-request at pm.org, it showed me a list of commands (to be
sent to yapc-request at pm.org in the body or subject)
including the following:

    unsubscribe [password] [address=<address>]
        Unsubscribe from the mailing list.  If given, your
password must match
        your current password.  If omitted, a confirmation
email will be sent
        to the unsubscribing address. If you wish to
unsubscribe an address
        other than the address you sent this request from,
you may specify
        `address=<address>' (no brackets around the email
address, and no
        quotes!)


That said, other lists support unsubscribe via emailing the
list, so maybe it would be good to add that if possible.

On 06/06/2013 07:51 PM, Faelin McCaley Landy wrote:
> Stupid gmail responds to people instead of to the list >.<
> 
> [resent:]
> 
> To be fair, when you first sign up for the list, you get an
> email saying "to unsubscribe, simply respond to the mailing
> list with that in the subject" (or something to that
> effect), and yet it seems to fail when people attempt this.
> 
> ~Fae
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Matthew Wilson
>     <diakopter at gmail.com <mailto:diakopter at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         /me giggles at the 25 unsubscribes in the past day...
> 
> 
>         On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mike South
>         <msouth at gmail.com <mailto:msouth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, John Haugeland
>         <john at crowdtilt.com <mailto:john at crowdtilt.com>> wrote:
>         >>
>         >> Many people who wish to show frustration with
>         choices being made on their
>         >> behalf feel that this is an appropriate mechanism
>         to politely display their
>         >> reaction.
>         >>
>         >> I am quite surprised that the reaction is "why
>         can't you do this," rather
>         >> than "why are you all suddenly leaving?"
>         >
>         >
>         > Possibly we're just seeing people who were
>         subscribed to the list
>         > specifically because they were coming to YAPC::NA
>         2013, to get conference
>         > updates and so forth.  This seems like a sensible
>         and practical approach for
>         > a wide variety of attendees, given that this is
>         where important updates and
>         > changes are announced.  I don't really think this
>         is people "leaving the
>         > community" so much as "reducing the noise in the
>         inbox now that the
>         > conference is over".
>         >
>         > However, I don't know what the normal profile is
>         for users on this list as a
>         > specific conference approaches and ends, so I
>         might be wrong.
>         >
>         > mike
>         >>
>         >>
>         >
>         >
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