UNSUBSCRIBE!!!! *grin*

[Packy Anderson]

The belief stems (I believe) from the idea that the list membership is
managed MANUALLY. I believe this because it very closely resembles the
responses I see to interminable "reply all" threads with lots of
recipients: all it takes is for one person to not get the message, and then
reply to an earlier message in the thread, and a recipient who was removed
from a thread is quietly added back.

People who might, under normal circumstances, understand that the list is
managed by software, revert to the more "primal" understanding of "reply
all" when they're angry or stressed and not thinking clearly.

Of course, this is all armchair psychoanalysis. The truth may be completely
different.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, 6:38 PM Todd Rinaldo via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:

> AOn Apr 8, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Darren Duncan via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:
> >
> > I think most responders got it.
> >
> > 1.  Sending the "how to unsubscribe" reminder to the list (in addition
> to the questioner privately) is a normal and common good practice for a
> long time.
> >
> > 2.  It also helps others who were also wondering how to unsubscribe.
> For every person who asks a question, there are many others who want to
> know but don't ask.
> >
> > 3.  It lets others know the question was answered so they don't have to.
> >
> > 4.  Since the original message was sent to the whole list, the
> individual singled out themselves anyway.
> >
> > This all being said, some mailing lists have an actual visible small
> footer appended to list messages with subscription management / unsubscribe
> instructions, and that might be useful to do for pm.org lists for people
> not savvy enough to look at the typically hidden by default relevant mail
> headers.
> >
> > -- Darren Duncan
>
> See now, what I want to know is why there's a general belief that replying
> with UNSUBSCRIBE!!!! (the extra exclamation marks make it work better) has
> any effect. I know there are some systems that support that but even they
> only work if you send to the management email, not the mailing list one.
>
> As a corollary to this curiosity, I'm also curious why people think that
> works on threads.
>
> The troll in me makes me want to reply to those emails even more just to
> see how much more I can flood their inbox.
>
> Todd
>
>
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