> 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.