Troy Frericks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 29 March 2000 at 06:57:18 -0600
> At 10:18 AM 3/28/00 , Charles Cazabon wrote:
> >Randy Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (about unsubscribing):
> >>
> >> Instructions in the header or footer would be nice.
> >>
> >> I've tried qmail-help, qmail-request to no avail.
> >
> >There's a header in every message that says the following:
> > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm
>
> Most people don't think to "show headers" when they want to unsubscribe. I
> think the point that is being made here is that
>
> it would be nice if it were part of the displayable portion of each post.
>
> Almost all other mailing lists do it. This list is being run on qmail, and
> qmail has the ability to attach a footer (part of the text message) to each
> email. Why not do it?
Qmail has no such ability. (Well, you can hack your qmail setup to do
nearly anything if you want to badly enough.) Ezmlm has no such
ability. Ezmlm+idx has an easy way to do it; but this list is run
with bare Ezmlm.
As to "almost all other mailing lists" doing it -- not one of the
mailing lists I'm on, over a dozen, puts unsubscribe instructions in a
trailer. Some put it in a header, some nowhere in the message.
And I think that people who use software that hides headers from them
should simply learn to force it to show those headers, and should look
in those headers when they're puzzled about something relating to a
message.
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