Hello,
Why put it there if there is already a perfectly good standard, RFC 2369 (from 1998!, so about as new as IPv6) that describes where to put the mailing list information: in the headers of the mail. And guess what? That's exactly where the Debian lists already places this information. -----Original message----- From: Emiliano del Peon <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday 2nd March 2016 12:22 To: Andrew Vaughan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Changing the "Reply-To:" for debian-security-announce Or it could be add just as a signature to the mail. Like: Content More content _________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send an email with subject: "Unsubsribe" to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> I think this clearly separates the content of the message and list management stuff This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com 2016-03-02 8:12 GMT-03:00 Andrew Vaughan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: I'm wondering why the body of the email doesn't include instructions on how to unsubscribe? Most modern email clients will recognise http and email addresses and make them clickable even in plain text messages. I realise that adds noise to every message, but people are good at skimming past irrelevant bits. Just adding "To unsubscribe email:[email protected] <mailto:email%[email protected]> with the subject unsubscribe" at the bottom of every email might halve the noise. Not sure if email clients will do the right thing with subject but "To unsubscribe email:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe <http://email:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> " but if they do that might be better. Also if the web unsubscription form could handle addresses of the form https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe/debian-security-announce, and allow people to unsubscribe without needing to pick the right list from a long list an https unsubscription link would also be good. Andrew
