Charles Gregory wrote:

A few times each month I get an e-mail from someone requesting something as simple as 'please unsubscribe me' sent to 'mailman-owner' rather than to the owner of the list to which they are subscribed. It's fairly obvious that they are finding the 'monthly reminder' e-mail and just hitting 'reply' in their mail client.

And they clearly aren't actually reading that mail since it tells them to follow the included 'options' link to unsubscribe.

I understand how/why one mailing covers all possible lists/subscriptions, but I have to wonder if there could be a way to have a notice mailed for each list, with the appropriate list owner as return address?

I for one would not like to receive 11 separate reminders for my 11 python.org list subscriptions.

Or perhaps, on that single mailing for all lists, have some sort of generic non-deliverable sender/reply address, so that people can't just hit the reply button?

And what do you suggest that address should be? And given that the user doesn't actually read the reminder, how do we explain to the user to ignore the bounce that occurs when (s)he replies?

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