On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:45:20AM -0400, Franklin? Lee wrote: > On Apr 26, 2016 4:02 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 25 April 2016 at 23:55, Franklin? Lee <leewangzhong+pyt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > FWIW, Gmail's policies require: > > [...] > > > That link is currently the only obvious way to unsubscribe. > > > > I'm not sure why gmail's policies should apply to this list. > > They're Gmail's policies on how not to get your messages filtered by Gmail > as spam. > > I am not clear on whether they're descriptive (i.e. users will mark you as > spam) or prescriptive (i.e. Google's algorithms will determine that you're > spam).
I don't think it's just Google. If I remember correctly, having a clearly visible and *working* unsubscribe link in the body of the email (not merely hidden away in the headers where non-technical users would never think to look) is a requirement for the CanSpam act, or whatever it was called. In any case, whether it is a legal or practical requirement or not, it's a fairly small burden. As I see it, the only time it causes a (tiny) issue is if somebody accidently includes the footer from a list mail they received when forwarding to somebody else (or sending to the list), and the receiver mistakenly (or in an attempt to cause trouble) clicks on that link. Which is harmless. Considering how many hundreds, thousands (hundreds of thousands? sometimes it feels like that *wink*) of emails go through this list alone, I don't think this is a problem that needs fixing. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
