a.h.s. boy said:
> How is the "sender" email address determine for subscribe/unsubscribe
> requests? Does it simply read the From: header?

Yes

> Like an earlier poster -- to whom no one ever responded -- I have
> occasional issues with users being maliciously unsubbed from lists by
> other people. Since virtually any headers can be spoofed, I figure
> there's no secure way of preventing this without disabling the
> ability to unsub altogether.

> Any chance this will make it into LetterRip any time before 2010?

I definitely recognize the need (of a few people) to prevent spoofing
unsubscribe mails. You are also correct that having a confirmation would
be the best way to do this. It is on a list of medium-difficult tasks to
try and tackle.

> Seriously, I'm a fan of LetterRip, but its development roadmap leaves
> a lot to be desired. Little things like the Admin Log Window being
> unable to always scroll properly with new input have been broken for
> years.
The scrolling log window is something that I likely won't be solving
unless I switch technologies used in the admin. The admin is a CFM
application that is using late-90's text editing capabilities. Letterrip 3
did a slightly better job of getting placement right in the log window.
When it came down to it, I couldn't figure out the logic well enough to do
better in Letterrip 4. As Eric mentioned in his reply, I would suggest
using the console app or the command line tool "tail". They work better
than the admin window does and place less load on the server.

> The "Server configuration" window has never shown me any
> details about list settings except
> ----- Settings for list APC-Newsletter -----
> ----- Settings for list Charles Village Discussion -----
> etc, which makes me wonder what it's _supposed_ to do (which I can't
> find out because there's no documentation for 4.x).

That was/is a work in progress. It was supposed to be used as a support
tool for me.

> When LetterRip first came out, it was revolutionary in its
> simplicity, but it hasn't really kept up with the times. And sure, I
> know I could move to EZLM or something on my Linux box, but LetterRip
> is one of the few Mac-based server apps I've stuck with since the old
> days (WebSTAR/FireSite/NetCloak/AIMS/Phantom) and I'd like to see it
> gain the features that will keep it useful.

As Eric alluded to, adding features to Letterrip isn't a high priority for
me. I have a chicken and egg problem. Sales are very, very low. There is
IMO, less of a market for mailing list managers today than there was when
it was first introduced in 1996. I am 100% positive that I could double or
even triple sales with a bit more effort but it would literally take
10-15x the current clip to make me think about quitting my day job. I
don't believe that is possible.

Lot's of people have day jobs and publish software on the side. In the
last year, I've taken a new role at work that has me very, very busy. It's
seriously cut into the things that I had planned for Letterrip (daemon
support which required networking code rewrite, better support for "mail
merge" support, etc.). Making things a little more difficult is that for
the first time in my life, I am writing Windows code rather than Mac code.

This shouldn't be considered an excuse for fixing bugs and low-impact
items. I absolutely will do my best to fix those sorts of things.
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