How does one unsubscribe from a specific forum? I’m not really interested in the “opponents wanted” forum as I’m already surrounded by opponents in real life. This doesn’t seem to be addressed anywhere on the website.
Did you try going here:
forums.vassalengine.org/mailman/ … engine.org
to unsubscribe?
I’ve never subscribed before, so I don’t know whether it works.
It doesn’t ask you which one you wish to unsubscribe from. Or is that
impossible?
- M.
On 21/02/2008, meng messages@forums.vassalengine.org wrote:
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It’s all one forum, it is not possible to subscribe/unsubscribe to particular sub-folders.
Brent.
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The simplest way is to create a filter in your e-mail client. Just get it to filter anything with subject line “[Opponents Wanted]” into your e-mail trash.
Does this mean that players looking for opponents receive all the
developer posts?
- M.
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Thus spake “Michael Kiefte”:
If they are subscribed to the forum via the mailing list, yes.
If you look back at our long-running debate over how to set up the
forum, you’ll find me complaining about this frequently and at great
length.
This could be solved by a little hacking on Mail2Forum, to make it
possible to attach more than one external list to a forum. I still
think this wouldn’t be difficult to do, and I’m sure that the M2F
developers would appreciate the contribution.
You can see my discussion with the M2F devs here:
mail2forum.com/forums/viewto … 3782#13782
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J.
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Well, out of 220 users we’ve got around 18 on the mailing list and most are part of the dev team anyway. I really do not see this becoming a huge problem!
So the two non-developers on the mailing list will just have to $#%@! un-subscribe if they do not want to see developer posts! 
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Or… it might be the reason there are only 18 using the mailing list…
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It might be. Or they might be like me, and would much rather have a forum than a mailing list. 
(I didn’t know you could subscribe to a phpBB forum as a mailing list, and can’t really see the point. But, I just never liked mailing lists in the first place.)
Thus spake “Tim Byrne”:
Sigh. That’s what I’d argue.
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At the very least, the opponents wanted list should be separate. I
doubt those people want to hear most of what goes on here. I really
don’t know what’s involved with the forums though.
On another note, the CSW VASSAL list appears to be largely inactive.
Is there a big divide between CSW readers and VASSAL?
- M.
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Since I’ve never seen the point in web fora when you have nice civilized mailing lists, I’m very grateful to the guys for keeping both options!
Cheers,
Tim.
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I would read the lists solely on the web, but I’m not sure how it
knows which posts are new or not. It doesn’t seem to know which ones
I have and have not read. I’d like something that keeps track of that
similar to CSW, which is why I stick with the mail forums.
- M.
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I stop by ConSimWorld about once every five years, and leave it, frustrated, a half-hour later when I find they haven’t done anything about the hopeless muddle that is their UI.
Hey don’t knock ConSimWorld, it’s the way-back machine of the war-gaming world! 
Thus spake “bsmith”:
I check the VASSAL category there every morning, just in case someone
needs help…
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Took me a while to get back to this one.
Yes, I would agree the main reason that there are only 18 people using the mailing list is because the overwhelming number of posts are from developers.
I quite like using the mailing list interface, but if I was not a developer, there is no way I would subscribe. Using your email filter is all very well, but I’m overloaded with spam as it is, why would I ask for more?
I would be interested to see the stats off how many people join the mailing list and then unsubscribe after a few days?
Cheers,
Brent.
You guys honestly still think the majority of people want to use mailing lists? You cannot be serious! Heck, even forums are dying with the advent of social networking. Any 16 year old will tell you e-mail is an old technology.
I’m totally astounded to constantly find the degree that developers think the rest of the world thinks like them! Although I’ve known it for years, it still makes me laugh out loud! But we need you guys to be like that, because it enables you to do such an excellent job.
Brent, the mailing list has crept ever so slowly from 10 users to 18, it has never gone over that number. In fact, there has been virtually no activity in there whatsoever, turn that thing off and the only people who are gonna notice are IT people lol
There’s a big world out there guys, much bigger than our little IT bubble!
Hi B.,
I don’t think you’ve addressed the problem below and I’m not sure I
even understand your message. I would be more than happy to use the
web interface, but there’s one factor that prevents me from doing so:
How do I quickly find the posts that I haven’t already read without
wading through what I’ve already seen? Is there even a way to do
this? Although the CSW interface is wildly unattractive, it handles
this quite nicely.
Nevertheless, it’s clear that many users simply want to subscribe to
an e-mail list. How can we break up the forums into separate e-mail
lists so that people can subscribe to individual forums without
resorting to e-mail filters?
- M.
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