John Levine writes:
Patrick wrote:
Is that something mailman(2|3) should support? To me it looks useful.
Personally I am +1 on "patches welcome" until users start asking for it (including via list and site managers). Until I see evidence of intent to use, I'm not excited about putting the effort into developing and maintaining it myself.
It would certainly make it easier to deal with grumpy gmail users, since gmail does not provide junk button feedback.
The disadvantage is that every recipient needs to get a separate copy of each message, because the list and user info has to be encoded in the list-unsubscribe URL. That's been standard in commercial e-mail for a decade, but a lot of discussion list operators still imagine that it's too slow.
I wouldn't have a problem with experimenting with enabling personalization by default in Mailman 3 to get experience with it.
I would oppose it in Mailman 2 at this point in its lifecycle because throttling of hosted lists is still a FAQ, and (at least theoretically) multiple recipient transactions can alleviate those limits.
Steve