Bobo connor wrote:

I subscribe to a lot of lists and ***all too often*** see messages such as:

unsubscribe or please unsubscribe me from this list. or how do I unsubscribe

NEAT FEATURE REQUEST

Before messages of this type are sent to the list of hundreds of others, How about a routine that scans ONLY the first line of the body looking for the word unsubscribe (Upper & Lower case)

This message would NOT be posted but quoted back to the sender with the standard "Reply to this message to confirm your canceled subscription"

I struggle my self when unsubscribing because I have misplaced, deleted or archived the first list "save this message" especially on long running lists.

Ironically, your message was held for administrator approval due to the "unsubscribe" in the subject and first few lines of the message - mailman has an administivia detector (that could perhaps use more tuning). I did approve it, and would have liked if the approval message offered me the option to note just this in the approval, but no such luck. (I would have commented about this, but my company's connection to the internet is currently suffering non-cooperation from the phone company, so i'm hardly connected.) The approach you suggest of soliciting confirmation for suspect administrivia messages sounds like one good way to improve the situation - are you thinking about implementing it? If anyone is, it'd be good to discuss it on the list first. My thought is that it would be good to generalize the confirmation mechanism mailman already has so it can be used by the administrator at their discretion, eg from the admindb approval page... Briefly, Ken klm@digicool.com