Isn't the point to avoid people writing to the list in a desperate
attempt to get off it? What's wrong with making the instructions to
unsubscribe clear? Does it somehow lower the cachet of the list or
something?
On 9 Sep 2005 at 18:27, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Friday 09 September 2005 08:08 am, Rowan Collins
wrote:
On 09/09/05, Paul Johnson <baloo(a)ursine.ca>
wrote:
On Thursday 08 September 2005 06:54 pm, B.
Magilavy wrote:
Perhaps it would be clearer to people who are not
familiar with
the conventions of mailing lists if the footer were a bit more
explicit: "To unsubscribe, go to " ... "and scroll down to the
bottom of the page."
Every message already has a List-Unsubscribe header...
And this is visible where in the average mail UA?
kmail by pressing v, two or three mouse-strokes in just about
everything else graphical, a single keystroke in just about everything
else.
The suggestion was to make the method
"clearer to people who are not
familiar with the conventions", not "locatable if you're geeky
enough to view the raw headers of an e-mail message".
Just about anybody that has to sift through an abuse@ role address can
tell you that just about any idiot is capable of doing this, even if
they can't follow a chain of Received headers if their life depended
on it and for all they care, mail servers run on magic and sunshine.
I would hope anybody considering implementing a collection of scripts
downloaded off the Internet and the know-how to pull it off would
understand at least as much about email as the average layman.
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