Re: please remove me from this list

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Peter Odding <peter@peterodding.com> wrote:
> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>>
>> All lua-l postings contain information in the headers on how to
>> unsubscribe:
>>
>> List-Unsubscribe:
>>
>> <http://vlists.pepperfish.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lua-l-lists.lua.org>
>> <mailto:lua-l-request@lists.lua.org?subject=unsubscribe>
>
> I guess this isn't all that obvious for people who use a mail client that
> doesn't expose this information in some way without viewing the source of
> the mail message. Some mailing lists I subscribe to automatically include a
> footer such as:
>
> --
> You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist.
> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
>
> Adapting this to lua-l might yield:
>
> --
> You received this message from the "lua-l" maillist.
> For more information, visit http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
>
> Maybe including such a footer in messages sent through lua-l can reduce the
> "please unsubscribe me" noise because the lua-l page at www.lua.org includes
> an unsubscribe link? It's just a suggestion though, I'm not trying to start
> a flamewar about mailing list etiquette ;-)
>
>  - Peter Odding
>
> --
>
> PS. The footer should actually start with the line "-- " because by
> convention this marks the start of e-mail footers. When you reply to a
> message with such a marker, e-mail clients like Thunderbird will strip the
> footer in the reply so they don't pile up like internationalized "Re:"
> subject prefixes tend to do :-)
>
>
Adding such a footer will render any email 'signing' invalid. It
doesn't matter terribly much for this mailing list, I think, but I do
find it annoying when mailing lists fiddle with message content.


-- 
Thomas Harning Jr.