you'd have to post-process each and every message you delivered based on
subscriber options.
in this particular case, the option is on or off, so you could
potentially have separate lists for the different options. but that
could quickly spiral out of control if you had a bunch of options.
personally i don't give a flip about stupid people who can't figure out
how to unsubscribe. people will always find a way to get those damn
messages through no matter what kind of hoops you make them jump
through. i'd rather see mailing list owners boot people permanently
from mailing lists for sending unsub requests to the list. maybe we
could set up a blacklist of mailing list morons and ban them from every
mailing list.
shag
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai MacTane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri 19 May 2000 10:41
Subject: Re: I want to leave this list
> At 5/18/2000 09:47 PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote or quoted:
>
> >It breaks MIME structured bodies, which are often useful for
particular
> >purposes. It breaks some signed posts. It's useless information for
99%
> >of the recipients. And I'm really sick of seeing mailing list posts
> >accumulate more and more worthless junk to the point that it's
practically
> >more unwanted bytes in my mailbox than spam is. It's rather simple
to
> >skip over the messages from the completely lost people; footers that
any
> >intelligent person doesn't need are both intrusive and ugly.
>
> Say, here's an idea, which I'm not sure how difficult it would be to
implement:
>
> What if, when you first subscribe, it automatically sends you messages
with
> a footer, and the footer says something like:
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, [do some stuff]
> To remove this footer, [do this other stuff].
>
> Then people can self-select whether they're intelligent or not. Anyone
that
> can remove the footer *must* have seen and noticed the
> unsubscription-instruction footer, and they can obviously read and
follow
> directions (or they wouldn't have been able to ditch the footer in the
> first place).
>
> Since I use Majordomo, I know nothing of ezmlm internals, so I'm not
sure
> how hard this would be to set up. But it's a thought for how to deal
with
> the situation.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Kai MacTane
> System Administrator
> Online Partners.com, Inc.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
>
> finger trouble /n./
>
> Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is
> surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they
> spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at the end of statements
> instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble again, eh?".
>
>
