Re: migrations (was Re: To all who wish to unsubscribe)

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Jerry Regan
<jerry(dot)regan(at)concertoglobalresources(dot)com> wrote:
> I kind of agree with both. Personally, my strengths are data communication. Databases are frequent end points. Mailing lists? Have never had a need to work with them, so they’re in the, “don’t care” bucket so long as they work.
>
> As far as missing , ‘unsubscribe’ in headers/titles, my totally unscientific experience with a limited number of mailing lists (email, text, etc) gives me the impression unsubscribe in header/title is by far the most common method provided. Also seems simplest, but then I’m just a user.......;)

This is exactly a point.
Every single ML has a links in the footer to either the ML archives or
to the (un)-subscribe page.

But apparently from now on PG lists will not have it and if you want
to unsubscribe from the list you will need to open a header (why?)
find the appropriate link inside a bunch of non-useful information and
copy paste it into the mailer.

Can anyone explain why?
Why not do what other ML do - provide the links in the footer?

Thank you.

>
> /s/jr
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 22, 2017, at 05:02, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> writes:
>>>> On 11/21/2017 11:42 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> I am not sure if that is sarcasm but I think the reason is pretty self
>>>> explanatory. -Hackers have all the people that understand how all this
>>>> works, -general has all the people that don't.
>>
>>> rotfl, and ain't that the truth.
>>
>> I'm not sure I believe it. People reading any database-oriented mailing
>> list are going to be pretty tech-savvy, I'd think.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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