Many people are mistakenly subscribing to launchpad-users@

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Recently many people have posted to launchpad-users@, in broken English, asking to be unsubscribed. This suggests that when they're subscribing they're unaware of the consequences.

We could analyze the lists.ubuntu.com referer logs to find out where these people came from when they subscribed, then fix the problem.

(See also bug 196882, about making it more obvious how to unsubscribe.)

[Kevin Deamandel (kevin-hybirdd)]

The list manager could edit the footer to say

to unsubscribe mailto someadress as stated in bug 196882

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

Because

--
launchpad-users mailing list
<email address hidden>
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users

is not clear enough?

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

short of 20 point text, bolded, maybe with a marquee, I'm not sure what you can do here.

[Nathan Haines (nhaines)]

Needs more blink tag.

[Jeremy Visser (jeremy-visser)]

Cyanide?

[Tim Post (tinkertim)]

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:16 +0000, Sarah Hobbs wrote:
> short of 20 point text, bolded, maybe with a marquee, I'm not sure what
> you can do here.

And make sure its pink, typed in something that strongly resembles MS
comic-sans :)

OMG! Ponies!!!!

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[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Olá Sarah e a todos.

On Sunday 25 May 2008 09:15:22 Sarah Hobbs wrote:
> Because
>
> --
> launchpad-users mailing list
> <email address hidden>
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
>
> is not clear enough?

and for ppl that dont even read english?
I think that that is the biggest problem.
ShipIt and lists.U.C/lists.Canonical.C should all have multi-language interfaces.

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[Christian Reis (kiko)]

BTW, we're using first-post moderation for launchpad-users and it's worked quite well to catch first posters that are at the wrong place. This may or may not make this bug irrelevant.

[ChrisW (chris-simplistix)]

Hey,

Better yet: why am I getting notifications from this bug? I can't see any association I have with it...

Chris

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:49:04AM -0000, ChrisW wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Better yet: why am I getting notifications from this bug? I can't see
> any association I have with it...

At the end of the mail it should say something like this:

> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Launchpad
> Bug Contacts, which is subscribed to Launchpad itself.

What does it say in the notification you got?

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Bjorn, Chris W's notification happened because Bruce subscribed l-b-t to this bug. It's since been unsubscribed and I've added a contact address to l-b-t to avoid this ever being a problem again.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

This is no longer an issue since the list was moved to launchpad.