Re: List unsubscriptions

Darren,

* Darren Duncan (darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net) wrote:
> So I had identified 12 distinct individuals for Stephen that clearly
> said on-list that they wanted to get off of it, in list posts made
> in the last 2 days. It looks like 5 of those must have removed
> themselves in the meantime.

I've now removed another 4 subscribers and am working with one
last individual to remove them.

> Hopefully this bit of unpleasantness is behind us now and the list
> can go back to discussing what it exists to discuss, pgAdmin.

Agreed.

> Stephen, as a related feature request which you can pass on to the
> relevant people, I quote something Dave Page said yesterday:
>
> "Come to think of it, iirc, the old system used to moderate/block
> emails to the list that just said 'unsubscribe' or a few other
> keywords. I wonder if we're seeing the effects of that not being
> there any more."
>
> Having a feature like that in place will help cut down future spam.

I'll chat with Magnus about that and we can look into it. The old
system had a bunch of other things that forced moderation (which tended
to get more in the way than it helped..), but perhaps we should add back
the "unsubscribe" one.

Thanks!

Stephen