[Qgis-psc] Changing signatures of our mailing lists

[Gary Sherman]

On Oct 29, 2015, at 1:48 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You all know that we quite often get emails asking how to unsubscribe. Looking at our mailing list signatures I have to say that it is really not obvious that the link provided has to be used to unsubscribe.
> 

I took a quick look at the mailman admin interface and I don’t see any way to customize the footer—I’ll dig a little deeper to see.

> Currently it reads:
> 
>> Qgis-user mailing list
>> Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
> 
> Could we change it to something like:
> 
> Qgis-user mailing list (Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org)
> Main QGIS list for user questions
> To change your subscription settings, see the archive or unsubscribe
> please visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
> 
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> 
> I think it would also be useful to have a very brief statement what this mailing list is about. Quite often, people subscribe the UX mailing list, thinking it is the user mailing list. If we have a bit more info what this mailinglist is about, they may perhaps find out themselves, that they are on the wrong list …
> 

https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user provides a description of the user list. This can be tweaked if desired.

> It would save us some annoying and unnecessary emails if we can be clearer about our mailing lists.
> 
> Who can change our mailinglist signatures?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andreas
> 
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