On 03/06/18 09:30, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:55:09 +0800
Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/18 04:39, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second
>> time prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary
>> as bad weather, I believe, because are there really MUA's out there
>> nowadays, without the capability to display the mail-headers? But
>> again, I won't complain ..
> Since the headers
>
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> exist in each message do you consider the footer
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> equally "unnecessary as bad weather"?
No. But if we're already at it: A reminder in the footer to the mail
headers might be even more useful. Because there are a few more than
the mentioned two ..
I doubt it, for several reasons.
1. Many people seem to miss or ignore the footer. Asking, "how do I
unsubscribe".
2. Why point users to email headers and make them jump through additional hoops?
Why invite the inevitable question "How to I display headers on "X" email
client?"?
3. Displaying the headers in many email clients will show links....but they won't be
clickable. Why force people to cut and paste?
Really: I do not care much about what to put into the footer or not.
Could have fooled me. :-)
But perhaps it is a good idea to put all user-relevant information in
that very first welcome message from this list after subscribing to it:
I just had a look at the one I got: it was very short, and maybe one
could place a friendly reminder into that welcome message to the mail
headers sent out with each new message from this list. And maybe even a
friendly reminder to ask on this list *after* having put some
reasonable effort to find a solution by oneself.
Maybe a link to this page:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
There once was a link to the Fedora Mailing List Guidelines which did (I've not
looked at it in a long time) have a section on "how to ask good questions" and
"what
to do before posting". See reason #1 above for how well that worked out. :-)
--
If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there so
many of them?