On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 06:39:06PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0400 "Brian Canty" <bcanty@apsa.org> wrote:
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
What's wrong with the current challenge and response method? Stops people from maliciously (un)subscribing others.
Even if it's not primarily intended for that purpose, Mailman is used extensively as (and can be configured as) an announcement list, vs. a traditional discussion list. In that context (where none of the members can post, or learn the email address of other members, and therefore won't accidentally post their unsub link to the list), it makes sense to have a one-click unsubscribe. While you might "maliciously" try to unsubscribe someone you don't like on a discussion list, there are good policy or legal reasons in certain cases to make *subscription* difficult, and *unsubscription* easy.
[Yes, I understand that it's possible to do this already; just responding to the "why" of your question]
While I don't use Mailman for this purpose, I do think that it would be great if the new version had a way to unsubscribe users via some kind of goop, rather than via their password.
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