[IxDA Discuss] My Prayers = Answered

[Jim Drew]

>From: Alan Wexelblat <awexelblat at gmail.com>
>
>- the list software blindly appends a ten-line blob of text to every
>message, without consideration of whether this would be a useful
>feature for the majority of list readers.  I haven''t done any user
>testing, but informally I'd be inclined to say that this is NOT a
>user-desired feature.  Once again, users don't have any control over
>this behavior.

Until now, I've never paid attention to the footer content of this list, beyond a glance to see that it had links in it which would presumably include an "unsubscribe" one.  I'm happy that it is there because any helpful info is better than no info, and I don't mind/pay attention to the length because I have a fast connection and a large enough screen that it is just a tiny impact.


That said, too much info can be as bad as too little.  Looking now at the set of links there, I can't imagine ever needing/wanting to click on more than 2 or 3 of them, and by extension, I doubt most of the links ever get clicked other than as "Hmm, wonder what this link actually goes to".  The 10-line block could probably be cut in half without any real loss of value. 

-- Jim