Thanks, that's most likely the answer. I've never thought to remove them other than to tidy up the message, and on some of the mail clients I use, it's so much effort that I don't bother.
I looked at messages from a couple of other mailman lists I'm on, and they don't have the unsubscribe link, so that explains why it hasn't happen with those. Peter Shute > -----Original Message----- > From: Mailman-Users > [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+pshute=nuw.org...@python.org] > On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro > Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2015 9:17 AM > To: mailman-users@python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your confirmation is > required to leave the Mailman-Users mailing list > > On 02/16/2015 12:48 PM, Peter Shute wrote: > > This is the second time I've received one of these. I'm > told the only way one of these could be generated is if > there's a URL published out there that does this when a bot > crawls it, or if someone deliberately tried to unsubscribe me. > > > There's another scenario that's more likely. See, e.g. the > post at > <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2014-October/ 077947.html>. > > In this post, you quote a prior post which you received from > the list and from which you did not remove the list footers > including an 'Unsubscribe' link to your user options page. > > This sends your 'Unsubscribe' link to every list member and > in turn some of these recipients forward it who knows where. > > Ultimately, someone receives it and thinks she wants to > unsubscribe from what ever is sending her these, follows the > link to your options page and clicks the Unsubscribe button > on that page. > > Spiders won't do this because even though they will follow > the link to your options login page, they won't post the > form, but people who receive that message directly or indirectly will. > > Always remove list footers from quoted material before > replying (if your MUA doesn't do it automatically), and this > scenario can't happen. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
