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That's ignoring the stage of "please take me off this list" - which, in my opinion, makes it a lot worse since then people suddenly feel like they CAN do someth
by JimboOmega 10y ago
That's ignoring the stage of "please take me off this list" - which, in my opinion, makes it a lot worse since then people suddenly feel like they CAN do something, namely, ask to be taken off the list.
This is especially compounded when it's a list that never has anything you want on it anyway - say it's some sort of distro that is usually used for the corporate newsletter.
Hilarious to watch I must say.
- ptaipale 10y agoA good trolling in this respect used to be a single-word reply "unsubscribe". However, it might not work any more, as people are no longer familiar with Majordomo mailing lists.
- branchless 10y agoNo. The correct thing to do here is to send a mail reply all asking how you can get on the list.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoThe best one I've been in was a scientific conference mailing list where the first email sent out instructed users to reply with "Unsubscribe" if they wanted off the list, but the reply-to address was set to the post-to-list address. So ordinary replies were converted into reply-to-all. Hilarity ensued.