Return-path: X-Spam-Personal-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on chain.digitalkingdom.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on chain.digitalkingdom.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Envelope-to: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Delivery-date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:00:56 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnEuT-0005nU-T9; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:00:23 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnEtd-0005nM-JD for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:59:21 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnEtd-0005nE-CA for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:59:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:59:21 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: A meta-level comment on the list Message-ID: <20090914165921.GF7540@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: jbovlaste@lojban.org References: <3cf171fe0909140628pe3b296dm49a87c6255fd47ef@mail.gmail.com> <4de8c3930909140752r32d78c96p5a2045f7d03012f3@mail.gmail.com> <20090914162833.GD7540@digitalkingdom.org> <3cf171fe0909140951g5c584f3ak9638f744fd30a5dd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3cf171fe0909140951g5c584f3ak9638f744fd30a5dd@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste Content-Length: 1032 Lines: 31 On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:51:42PM -0400, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Hi, > > > The system we're using allows peple to easily unsubscribe > > themselves, but I've got a system in place to put them back > > until/unless their account is disabled.  I'd really rather not > > have to replicate it for Google Groups. > > > > What I can do, and have done, is make the new account page a > > *LOT* more clear as to the purpose of the account: > > > > http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/newaccount.html > > Perhaps what is needed, then, is a form and button that makes it > easy to "unsubscribe from the list and disable my account" by > simply entering one's email into a box and clicking once ... ? Ooh, hey, that's a sneaky idea! Let me see what I can do. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/