[R] How do I get removed from this mailing list?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu May 28 12:34:42 CEST 2009


On 28/05/2009 5:03 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:33 +0200, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>> On 27/05/2009 8:25 PM, Andrey Lyalko wrote:
>>>>> How do I get removed from this mailing list?
>>>>>
>>>> Like most lists nowadays, it gives the instructions in each message
>>>> header:
>>>>
>>>> List-Unsubscribe: <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/options/r-help>,
>>>>     <mailto:r-help-request at r-project.org?subject=unsubscribe>
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> Unfortunately, "user-friendly" mailers nowadays tends to hide such
>>> information from users. E.g. if I set headers to All in Thunderbird I
>>> get a window full of headers larger than the screen and no scrolling
>>> capacity. So it ends with X-Mailman something and the
>>> List-Unsubscribe: stuff is nowhere to be seen.
>> right, but there are (at least) three things you can do in thunderbird
>> when all headers are on:
> 
> The "View message source" would be a more direct way of viewing the full
> email, not just the bits TBird shows you in the preview pane. I forget
> how it is named exactly and under which menu it is found as it has been
> quite a while since I used TBird.

That's what I use.  It's Ctrl-U for the shortcut, "View | Message 
source" by menu.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> G
> 
>> - open a print preview -- there you have a scrollable content with all
>> headers;
>> - save the message and open it in a regular text editor;
>> - install a suitable plugin (header scroll [1] works fine for me)
>>
>> the last one turns thunderbird a bit more user friendly.
>>
>> vQ
>>
>> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1003
>>
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