In any case, it would be really good to have a way to recover your login-password, not only in order to unsubscribe, But also to subscribe to the recently established new openEHR-lists or change your list registrations.
Sebastian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org] On Behalf Of USM Bish Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2005 6:51 PM To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: [OT] - Any Probs ? [was: Re: UNSUBSCRIBE] On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:45:21PM +0000, Thomas Beale wrote: > > you can normally login and unsubscribe. However, I recognise that > there are those in the position described in this email. I have > recommended to the webmaster & sysadmin people to enable a no-login > email method of unsubscribing. I have suggested that sending an > unsubscribe message to the list-manager address (not the list itself; > I am amazed that anyone thinks that will > work!) will actually get them unsubscribed and send an email saying > so. In the case of malicious abuse (faked "from" address), this > reply email will alert someone who doesn't want > to be unsubscribed. Alternatively, in response to an > unsubscribe email we could make the list manager send an email asking > for confirmation (like yahoogroups) and responding to that will > get you unsubscribed. This way is slightly more annoying but > less open to malicious abuse. What would people prefer? What is > regarded as reasonable configuration on other lists? > Yes, Thomas, the 'unsubscribe' email method with reconfirmation is acceptable. My suggestion would be to retain existing 'Login' method and the email method as an alternate. A possible implementation would be: o Blank mail to: openehr-unsubscribe at openehr.org o Check the header for the "From: " ($from) field o If '$from' exists, send automated re-confirmatory mail with link to existing http://openehr.org/cgi-bin/whatever.cgi (with username varified from $from). o From there onwards the processes would be common (viz. the actual process still done by the web mechanism). Bish - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
