[Mailman-Developers] Feedback for mailman developers

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Adrian Bye wrote:

> The one-click unsubscribe is a critical feature for mailman and will  
> open up a much larger interest base.  I am not proposing 1-click  
> unsubscribe for discussion mailing lists such as this one - that  
> would obviously cause problems with people unsubscribing each other  
> by mistake.  However a lot of organizations use mailing list  
> software to broadcast newsletters to their membership.  If users  
> cannot unsubscribe via some kind of (simple) 1-click interface then  
> it limits the people who can use the system and may not be CANSPAM  
> compliant.

I can see that there is some merit to the idea for newsletter type  
mailing lists.  I think there's still the possibility of abuse because  
such messages tend to be forwarded and those forwards will have the 1- 
click unsub link.  The only way I see of limiting that would be to  
require a log-in to confirm the unsub, but then I guess you're in no  
better shape.

I really wish more mail readers would support the RFC 2369 headers  
directly.  I think that would go a long way to making unsub as easy as  
possible.

Having said all that, this is clearly not a feature for Mailman 2.1.   
If some of the details can be worked out, it might be an option for  
Mailman 3 where I think 'list styles' will help make configuration of  
newsletter vs. discussion mailing lists much simpler.

Adrian, are you interested in creating the Bazaar branches as I  
outlined previously?

Cheers,
- -Barry

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