On Sunday 23 May 2010 12:21:39 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > It would be great if mailing list software could be configured so > that only users who demonstrate they know how to unsubscribe could > subscribe in the first place. Example: > > - user subscribes > - mailing list replies: "please unsubscribe and subscribe again" > - if user fails to do so within a configurable amount of time, > forcibly unsubscribe him > - if user succeeds, leave him subscribed after the second > subscription.
And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is fallible, as no-one knows better than I do. Better for this purpose would be to require all mailing lists to operate in the same way, but that's equally unlikely, as well as undesirable. > Just saying... What does that mean? I had a mother-in-law once who often added it to a critical remark, and I never understood what she meant by it either. -- Rgds Peter.