Please add an unsubscribe link to the footer of user list email

[Nicholas Chammas <ni...@gmail.com>]

Howdy,

It seems like every week we have at least a couple of people emailing the
user list in vain with "Unsubscribe" in the subject, the body, or both.

I remember a while back that every email on the user list used to include a
footer with a quick link to unsubscribe. It was removed, I believe, because
someone thought it was unnecessary clutter.

I disagree.

Please add that footer back in. It's a tiny cost to pay for giving users
the convenience of easily unsubscribing; it makes it much less likely that
people will mistakenly spam everybody as they have been; and it follows
modern email list conventions. The link can just be a "mailto:..." link
that does the same thing that you have to do today to unsubscribe.

I don't think we need to do the same thing on the dev list since the volume
of email is much lower, and since people on average here are probably more
familiar with the mechanics of subscribing to and unsubscribing from Apache
mailing lists.

Nick

Re: Please add an unsubscribe link to the footer of user list email

[Nicholas Chammas <ni...@gmail.com>]

From the ticket:

Before going ahead I would like to see a much broader consensus of the
changes being asked for. At least 3 +1s from PMC members would be ok.

Can some PMC members chime in there please?

Nick
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:13 AM Reynold Xin <rx...@databricks.com> wrote:

> If people want this to happen, please go comment on the INFRA ticket:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12185
>
> Otherwise it will probably be dropped.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Reynold Xin <rx...@databricks.com> wrote:
>
>> Filed infra ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12185
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Reynold Xin <rx...@databricks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Let me look into this...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 27, 2016, Nicholas Chammas <ni...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> It seems like every week we have at least a couple of people emailing
>>>> the user list in vain with "Unsubscribe" in the subject, the body, or both.
>>>>
>>>> I remember a while back that every email on the user list used to
>>>> include a footer with a quick link to unsubscribe. It was removed, I
>>>> believe, because someone thought it was unnecessary clutter.
>>>>
>>>> I disagree.
>>>>
>>>> Please add that footer back in. It's a tiny cost to pay for giving
>>>> users the convenience of easily unsubscribing; it makes it much less likely
>>>> that people will mistakenly spam everybody as they have been; and it
>>>> follows modern email list conventions. The link can just be a "mailto:..."
>>>> link that does the same thing that you have to do today to unsubscribe.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we need to do the same thing on the dev list since the
>>>> volume of email is much lower, and since people on average here are
>>>> probably more familiar with the mechanics of subscribing to and
>>>> unsubscribing from Apache mailing lists.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>

Re: Please add an unsubscribe link to the footer of user list email

[Reynold Xin <rx...@databricks.com>]

Let me look into this...

On Monday, June 27, 2016, Nicholas Chammas <ni...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> It seems like every week we have at least a couple of people emailing the
> user list in vain with "Unsubscribe" in the subject, the body, or both.
>
> I remember a while back that every email on the user list used to include
> a footer with a quick link to unsubscribe. It was removed, I believe,
> because someone thought it was unnecessary clutter.
>
> I disagree.
>
> Please add that footer back in. It's a tiny cost to pay for giving users
> the convenience of easily unsubscribing; it makes it much less likely that
> people will mistakenly spam everybody as they have been; and it follows
> modern email list conventions. The link can just be a "mailto:..." link
> that does the same thing that you have to do today to unsubscribe.
>
> I don't think we need to do the same thing on the dev list since the
> volume of email is much lower, and since people on average here are
> probably more familiar with the mechanics of subscribing to and
> unsubscribing from Apache mailing lists.
>
> Nick
>
>