James Knott wrote:
Barbara Duprey wrote:
Understood, and it would be annoying, but not really harmful.
What would you do, if someone decided they didn't want you on the list
and as soon as you post, fires off another unsubscribe? Would that not
be harmful?
Highly irritating! But they couldn't stop me from posting (messages
would just go through the moderator) or using another means to view the
messages. What I mean by harmful, though, is that it costs me money or
makes my whole email system unavailable. I can see a malicious subscribe
(or rather a whole bunch of them, to different very active lists or
through redirecting from a large number of accounts) doing that, by
clogging my server and making my ISP cut me off, or if my ISP used
metered traffic measurements for charging, as some (in other countries,
mainly) do. Still, it's probably enough of a problem that we do need the
protection, I guess.
As has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, the real issue is that
the mechanism to get the attention of the owner is not obvious and may
not work reliably. We could handle the "not obvious" part by quoting or
paraphrasing some or all of the users-help info to the poster of a
"please unsubscribe me" -- but the users-owner account needs to be
dependable.
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