Unsubscribing from the list

[Roel Schroeven]

Robert Kern schreef:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On 03/01/07, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>>> Robert provided *detailed* instructions, which you ignored.   I quoted
>>> the same instructions in my reply, which you also ignored.  the sentence
>>> after the one where you stopped reading also tells you what to do.  one
>>> might suspect that you don't really want to unsubscribe from this list...
>> I didn't ignore his instructions. I went to the page, and found what I
>> was looking for. I told him thank you, and explained why I didn't find
>> it the first time.
> 
> He misunderstood you (as I nearly did, too). The way you phrased "decided that
> there was no futher interest on the page for me" is somewhat ambiguous: it can
> seem like it refers to the second time, not the first.

I almost misunderstood too. Dotan is not the only one to be somewhat 
confusing though: I've always thought that the way Mailman formulates 
that page is confusing. It always seems to me that "(The subcribers list 
is only available to the list administrator.)" seems to cover the whole 
"Python-list Subscribers" section instead of just the first part of it.

I think this layout would be much clearer (although this is actually a 
Mailman issue, not a Python issue):


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Roel Schroeven