Re: Can we fix the list footer?

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> At the bottom of every mail message that goes through the list should be
> a set of instructions for how to unsubscribe and/or set options on your
> subscription ... and, just checking, I notice that Mulberry doesn't show
> it, but pine did ... *sigh*
>
> Oh well ... I can add a message footer, which are the TIPs, so I can add
> some text to each TIP, but someone give me the text to add ...
>
> As a side note, I just made one change to the lists, in that:
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> listname-unsubscribe@postgresql.org
>
> will now work, as will -subscribe .. so that at least streamlines the
> text ... but give me some suitable (and short) text that shoudl be added
> ...
>

I am not exactly sure what you meant above but here is what I would do:

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> --On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 08:31:24 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake"
> <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> It has once again come up that people are struggling to unsubscribe from
>> our lists. Now, granted this doesn't happen very often but if we just
>> added a footer to the bottom of every email sent that shows the web page
>> for the list info, the problem would likely be resolved.
>>
>> I would note that most other projects do this and I don't understand why
>> we don't.
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
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