On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:26:54 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>I think you mean RFC 2369 (The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List
>Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields). RFC 2069 is
>the HTTP RFC.
Sorry ... Yes. Thanks!
It's a standards-track rfc and proposes the headers
(List-post/unsubscribe, etc) and that MUA support them via a
user-friendly interface. Thus, to unsubscribe you click the
"unsubscribe" button. I've been told (but haven't confirmed) that there
are plans for Mutt to support this. The discussion on header bloat vs
stry posts is pretty reasonable. The mechanism is general enough to
support also MLMs that rely on subject/body commands.
It's trivial to implement in ezmlm (DIR/headeradd), _provided that_
qmail can do the substitution. qmail could limit substitution to the
header (good) and maybe to "List-*" headers (although it might be nice
to leave it a more general mechanism). There are certain downsides to a
general mechanism: You could have "To: #U#@#H#" and defeat a set of
spam filters, but IMHO, this shouldn't deter from making qmail better.
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
