Re: please remove me from this list

[Peter Odding <peter@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> All lua-l postings contain information in the headers on how to unsubscribe:
>
> List-Unsubscribe:
> <http://vlists.pepperfish.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lua-l-lists.lua.org>
> <mailto:lua-l-request@lists.lua.org?subject=unsubscribe>

I guess this isn't all that obvious for people who use a mail client 
that doesn't expose this information in some way without viewing the 
source of the mail message. Some mailing lists I subscribe to 
automatically include a footer such as:

--
You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Adapting this to lua-l might yield:

--
You received this message from the "lua-l" maillist.
For more information, visit http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html

Maybe including such a footer in messages sent through lua-l can reduce 
the "please unsubscribe me" noise because the lua-l page at www.lua.org 
includes an unsubscribe link? It's just a suggestion though, I'm not 
trying to start a flamewar about mailing list etiquette ;-)

 - Peter Odding

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PS. The footer should actually start with the line "-- " because by 
convention this marks the start of e-mail footers. When you reply to a 
message with such a marker, e-mail clients like Thunderbird will strip 
the footer in the reply so they don't pile up like internationalized 
"Re:" subject prefixes tend to do :-)