I'd prefer to have a short footer link called something like "Mailing List Page" which would take you to a page where you could subscribe, unsubscribe, or view the archives. I think that making the link short and also making it a quick shortcut away from the archives tips the scales in terms of utility vs. annoyance. One of the tips that shows up in the footers today is just a link to the archives anyway. -- Mark Lewis On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:28 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:30:03 -0700, > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Although I 100% agree with you Bruno, it should be noted that our lists > > are a closed box for most people. They don't follow what is largely > > considered standard amongst lists which is to have list information at > > the bottom of each e-mail. > > There are reasons you don't want to do that. Footers work OK for single > part email messages. They don't make so much sense in multipart messages. > You can probably take a crap shoot and add the footer to the first > text/plain part and not break things. This won't work so well for multipart > alternative messages that have text/plain and text/html parts. You could > also try to insert a footer in to the html part, but thats a bit trickier > since you can't just put it at the end. > > However, since the postgres lists are mostly just using text/plain parts > for message bodies and there are already footers being used to distribute > tips, it wouldn't make things significantly worse to add unsubscribe > information as well. > > I would prefer just making the unsubscribe instructions easy to find on > the web. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
