Обсуждение: Can we fix the list footer?
Hello,
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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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: 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 ... --On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 08:31:24 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Hello, > > 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 > > > > -- > > === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === > Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 > Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 > http://www.commandprompt.com/ > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> 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.
At one time, there were a couple of the rotating TIPs that were about
unsubscribing, but I have not seen them lately --- what happened there?
ISTM it would be sufficient if the info showed up once every few
messages, which is exactly what the TIPs are for.
regards, tom lane
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > 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: > > 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: ----------------------End of Broadcast-------------------------- List Info: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe Tip 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match > > > > --On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 08:31:24 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" > <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === >> Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 >> Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 >> http://www.commandprompt.com/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes: > I am not exactly sure what you meant above but here is what I would do: > List Info: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe I concur, but we also need to fix the header and text of that page to make it more obvious that it handles unsubscribe as well. Perhaps Subscribe or Unsubscribe to Lists Your email address: ... Also, it'd probably be user-friendly if there were an action "unsubscribe me from all PG lists" instead of having to remember what lists you are on. That might be nontrivial though. regards, tom lane
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I am not exactly sure what you meant above but here is what I would do: > > ----------------------End of Broadcast-------------------------- > List Info: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe Except that doesn't really make sense, since the URL is ".../subscribe". If it was ".../unsubscribe"... -- Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:13, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > I am not exactly sure what you meant above but here is what I would do: > > > > ----------------------End of Broadcast-------------------------- > > List Info: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe > > Except that doesn't really make sense, since the URL is ".../subscribe". > > If it was ".../unsubscribe"... Can we point it to http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/? The first item on that page says "to subscribe or unsubscribe". -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL