At 10:30 AM +1100 11/23/98, John Evershed wrote:
> BUT if the headers ARE supplied, then:
>
> (a) Help desk people can figure out how to help someone
> who can't unsubscribe from some list;
A third of your subscribers are from AOL. Half or more from major ISPs
like AOL, earthlink, netcom, whatever. guess how useful (and timely)
those help desk people will be....
> (b) Programs can be written to perform list handling
> (smart mail clients - "press this button to unsubscribe")
Again, if a third of your subscribers are from AOL, how quickly will
AOL adopt this? I don't *care* if Pine does. the folks using Pine are
least likely to NEED it in the first place. Until the major software
developers support it (and the 500 pound gorillas are AOL, Netscape and
Microsoft. Nobody else matters) it doesn't matter. And then we have to
wait for all of their users to upgrade. and find the new features. and
bother using them. and...
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