I decided today to switch all of my mailing lists over to a gmail account.  I wanted to consolidate them all into one incoming email address since I’m sick of replies bouncing due to an unsubscribed email address.  I figured I’d use gmail to let google pick up the tab and so I could use the searching capabilities if I ever need to. I quickly realized what a pain in the ass Apple’s mailing list site is to use.  I had to first unsubscribe to each list I’m on (about a dozen) by entering in the current email address (which I had to look up to verify which account each one was coming in on).  Then subscribe to the new one.  That had repeated for each one.  On top of that, lists.apple.com was running super slow today.  Was literally taking 45 seconds for each page to load.  Now I’m waiting for a subscribe and an unsubscribe email to process for each one.  Lots of fun.

What I’d love to see is an “account” page.  Let me log into the mailing list site once.  Create a profile.  Then simply check and uncheck a box next to each list to subscribe and unsubscribe.  A 30 minute exercise in tedium would be reduces to 30 seconds.  All I would have had to do today is change my profile’s email address. They could even tie it into my ADC account.  Although I would want to option to set an email address for the mailing lists that is separate from the mail ADC email address.  It’s time to make some of these simple everyday tasks easier then the outdated interfaces that have been used for the last 12 years.