On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Dave Dewey ddewey@cyberthugs.com wrote:
Quoting Brian Canty (bcanty@apsa.org):
Hello - I was wondering if anyone has a way to provide subscribers a simple and easy way to unsubscribe from a mailing list. I do not provide passwords, so I was wondering if there is a simple enter your email address box that I can include on a link in my footers?
Wouldn't that allow anyone to enter any email address in that box and unsubscribe them?
That's correct, and that's usually the problem. There is more than one way to do this with Mailman, but on a mailing list, it means that any user could unsubscribe any other user.
We usually see these one-click unsubscribe buttons on marketing newsletters and similar correspondence, but they don't seem to be a good option for a mailing list. (At least, I haven't figured out how to make it work in a way that would fit with the needs of a mailing list.)