Re: I want to leave this list

[Russ Allbery]

Troy Frericks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> OK, so they are stupid.  Now, let's help them out so they don't have to
> waste bandwidth and everybody's time.  Lets send them several messages
> each day with something in the body that all mail clients can read that
> tells them how to unsubscribe.

Let's not.

It breaks MIME structured bodies, which are often useful for particular
purposes.  It breaks some signed posts.  It's useless information for 99%
of the recipients.  And I'm really sick of seeing mailing list posts
accumulate more and more worthless junk to the point that it's practically
more unwanted bytes in my mailbox than spam is.  It's rather simple to
skip over the messages from the completely lost people; footers that any
intelligent person doesn't need are both intrusive and ugly.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>