On 09/09/05, Paul Johnson baloo@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? 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". I think people with the latter quality would be inquisitive enough to work it out for themselves.
[Kind of reminds me of the discussion about putting a 'longdesc' attribute in images; since no UAs actually do anything with it, it wouldn't make any difference if it was there or not. Someone suggested adding CSS or JS to display it, but then we might as well store it wherever we feel like it, standard or no.]