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Re: [Tools-discuss] postconfirm

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Mon, 24 June 2019 02:28 UTC

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Hi Mark,

On 2019-06-24 03:05, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For the escape-workshop-pc mailing list, we had a number of
> submissions from non-IETF people get stuck at the confirmation stage,
> because people who were not familiar with postman norms didn't
> realise they had to respond to the confirm message.
> 
> In particular, the Subject of the e-mail is "Confirm: ...", and the
> most prominent line is "Confirmation of list posting -- confirmation
> ID: ..." -- which can be read to say that THIS e-mail is confirming
> that posting has already occurred.
> 
> Would it be possible to rewrite the confirmation message to make it
> more clear to busy readers that they need to act on the message?

Certainly.

Do you have a proposal for the changed message?


Regards,

	Henrik

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