On April 8, 2014 11:11:55 PM EDT, Steven M Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >On 04/08/2014 07:16 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 16:45:52 Matt Simerson wrote: >>> >>> That's one perspective. Another is: >>> >>> cd path/to/ezmlm/list; rm prefix text/trailer addtrailer >>> >>> and go on with being a mailing list. >> Right. So then we train people that the "right" way to figure out to > >> unsubscribe or locate the list archive is to look in the message >headers for >> the correct header field (unsigned by the domain in From, BTW) and >then >> copy/paste whatever's there into their browser. >> >> Works for me just fine. Actual non-technical users, not so much. > >For the "actual non-technical users" you're describing, they're already >hitting the "report as spam" (or an "unsubscribe" button helpfully >provided in the past few years) - which has cut down on the "Hey, stop >sending me email" messages to the entire list that Matt mentioned. >Which >took non-zero effort to change MUAs and webmail services and back-ends, >let's not forget. > >Maybe that's unfair - after all, much of how those buttons work is >because MLM operators changed their software to include additional >information in special headers. Huh. Seems like an interesting example >of how MLM operators *can* change their software in response to broad >changes in the ecosystem...
Adding new header fields doesn't change the way lists work. It's fundamentally different than what we are discussing here. Scott K _______________________________________________ dmarc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.dmarc.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc-discuss NOTE: Participating in this list means you agree to the DMARC Note Well terms (http://www.dmarc.org/note_well.html)
