On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:
On 03/11/2011, at 22:34, Russell Coker wrote:
Legalistic sigs are meaningless. The LUV sig is not legalistic, it's merely informative.
I was thinking from an unsubscribing perspective. How else will the user figure out how to unsubscribe?
Every message to the list has six headers that provide various information about the list. With many MUAs you can just press "v" when in message viewing mode to see the headers. Then there's the option that you can just know which lists you subscribed to, that requires keeping a record of subscription or reading the monthly informational message. It requires some organisation. There's also the option of just sending mail to addresses such as $LIST- unsubscribe, postmaster, or listmaster at the domain which hosts the mailing list. It's not difficult.
And no, I don't think the courts would look too favourably upon a lone List-Unsubscribe SMTP header that most mail clients won't have a GUI for automating (only one I can think of is Gmail).
Please cite an example of legal action being taken about list subscription options being taken to court. If you can't provide a citation then stop this foolishness. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/