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Re: [school-discuss] OT: Failure to unsubscribe properly: a case of learned helplessness


--- Doug Loss <drloss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 but the unsubscription instructions are included
> in
> every message, in this header line:
> 
> X-To-Get-Off-This-List: mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, body
> unsubscribe
> schoolforge-discuss
> 
> Perhaps that's too cryptic for folks, or to difficult to find.  

Cryptic not, but yes, it is difficult to find for people like myself, I
am sure I am not alone, who read  mail with "full headers" off as
default.

>Myself, I tend to believe that it's incumbent on anyone wishing
to use a tool or service to learn for him or herself how to use it
properly.<

I believe it is incumbent of the implementer to provide clear and
adequate instruction., not on the learner to learn without appropriate
instruction. 

Though I guess the owners of the "Idiot Guides" would disagree!

M.

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