[iBook] please unsubscribe my email from list

[Angus Wallace]

I think it's also an issue of familiarity. Tech-savvy users know that 'there
must be an unsubscribe, and it's probably in the email, or at least on the
website', whereas a newbie might just see a problem ('I keep getting these
emails') and have no clue how to deal with it...

If I ask my fiance to check out a URL, I'll just email it to her. If I wanted
dad to look at a URL, I'd have to say 'press the blue button on the front of
the box, that switches the computer on... etc'. I think this is similar.

It's really easy, as something of a nerd to be very snotty and disdainful of
people who are not familiar with computers. It doesn't make them stupid! ;-)

-Gus

Quoting Joe Sporleder <joe at wacondatrader.com>:

> I guess people don't pay attention! I guess mailing list footers are  
> something to be ignored! :-) I run some of my own mailing lists and  
> I've even put the exact unsubscribe instructions in the footer, and  
> yet people still ask. Sometimes I'll get someone that'll send an  
> unsubscribe request to my mailing list, and I'll respond back via the  
> list address and ask "Did you try the instructions at the bottom of  
> every email message first?" and I'll have 3 or 4 unsubscribes shortly  
> thereafter. So, there was some others that wanted to ask or  
> unsubscribe, but didn't notice the instructions. I don't know if it  
> is information overload that causes folks to not notice the tools  
> right in front of them or what.
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Jun 4, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
> 
> > The URL at the bottom of the page that provides for subscribing or  
> > unsubscribing is
> >
> > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook
> >
> > It also provides other information: about iBook and using iBook.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe Roberts wrote:
> >> Of course, the individual could just click on the URL at the  
> >> bottom of the email, as she has been encouraged to do on more than  
> >> one occasion in the last week that she has been sending this request.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 4, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Andy McMullin wrote:
> >>
> >>> With all due respect therefore, saying "look above" to people on  
> >>> this list using iBooks with Apple software will mean nothing. How  
> >>> about "Use 'View -> Message -> Long Headers' to show the headers  
> >>> of the message, then use the 'List-Unsubscribe' address given in  
> >>> the 27th header from the top"?
> 
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