Stuart Rowan wrote:
> Alpine and afaicr pine expose this information. Each ML mail has a link at 
> the bottom in the mail viewer which gives you a list of all the things you 
> can do e.g. unsubscribe.
>
> Stu.
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>   
>> --On 18 February 2009 14:26:11 -0800 Dennis Peterson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Jim Potter wrote:
>>>       
>>>> please remove me from your mailing list.  thank you.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> The instructions for you to follow to get this done are in the headers of
>>> every  post from this list server. It's pretty much self-service.
>>>
>>> dp
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>> Can we not have the list unsubscribe link in the footer, too? It's a legal
>> requirement in the UK to have an easy to use mechanism to unsubscribe to
>> marketing  emails. The definition of marketing would definitely extend to
>> promotion of free open source software. Whether it also extends to a
>> support list like this might be debatable, but surely the developers of
>> software developed mainly in response to the spamming industry ought to be
>> following best practice.
>>
>> As long as most MTAs don't expose the List-Unsubscribe: header (none do by
>> default, as far as I'm aware), it can't be described as "easy to use". Some
>> MTAs even make it really hard to find the full message headers.
>>
>>     
Thunderbird doesn't by default, but has a plugin that *does*...

--FP
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