Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Mail List issues

On 2011-03-11 6:54 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello Charles Marcus,
>
> Am 2011-03-11 08:52:18, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > 1. Change the subject of the confirmation email.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > ACTION REQUIRED: You MUST CONFIRM your unsubscribe request from listname

> This sound like "courier-mlm" which I use on my OWN system and it  force
> peoples to put te word "yes" into the Subject: to subscribe.  :-D

Well, that's dumb, and we certainly don't want to make things harder, do
we... ;)

> > 2. Don't require the user to REPLY to the email - include a clickable
> > LINK in the email they can click on to execute the unsub request.

> Yeah, thats sound perfectly, because stupid users click on anything

lol... but seriously, lets avoid denigrating the users, shall we?

> > 3. Considering that the vast majority - over 99% most likely - of users
> > who click on the current link actually want to unsubscribe, regardless
> > of how you personally feel about it, there really, really needs to be a
> > DIRECT unsub link in the footer.

> Windows-Clicky-Idiot-Users

Come one, that's ridiculous... the one has nothing to do with the other.
It's a matter of wasting time. Forcing 99% of the people who click that
link to have to do double the work to unsubscribe is just plain silly.

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Best regards,

Charles

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