From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Chris <dmagick@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UNSUBSCRIBE
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 17:21:06 -0500
Message-ID: <20060510222105.GZ99570@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060510181051.GB11382@wolff.to>
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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:10:51PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:11 -0400,
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe the real problem is at the other end of the process, ie we should
> > require some evidence of a greater-than-room-temp IQ to subscribe in the
> > first place?
>
> I suspect it is more lazyiness that smarts. That had to at least figure out
> how to respond to the confirm message in the first place in order to get
> subscribed.
> My theory is that they don't want to take the trouble to figure out how to
> unsubscribe when they (think that they) can just send a message to the list
> (not even the admin) asking to be unsubscribed and it will (well actually won't
> on these lists) happen.
The confirm email has a directly-clickable link, or you can just reply
to it. From that standpoint, it's substantially easier and simpler than
unsubscribing is...
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Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com
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