> I initially tried the "teaching" approach when I took over list duties > with the same thought that it would be for the greater good of the > mailing lists community. I gave that up, though, when more often than > not, I would get a nasty reply that they _had_ tried to unsubscribe > themselves and _had_ followed the instructions _exactly_. Uh huh. Have you noticed, though, how many people spell it "unsubscibe"? For some reason, that "r" often seems to drop out of there. The list I co-own is for copy editors, so it cracks me up every time a message posts to the list reading "unsubscibe copyediting-l." > We do better than the twice weekly bottom banner. Every message to the > list has the unsubscribe instructions across the bottom or at the bottom > of the digest. We have the unsubscribe info in a digest header rather than a bottom banner. I figure that someone who no longer wants to be on a list is no longer reading the digests. So with the information at the top of the digest, all they have to do is open the message.