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.