[Mailman-Developers] 1-click unsubscribe

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Dan MacNeil wrote:

> However, lots of people use it for newsletters/announcements
> because it is the tool at hand. Adding things like 1-click
> unsubscribe will make mailman a better tool for these accidental
> uses and (as far as I can see) not hurt it for discussion lists.

Announce-only lists are common even in the FLOSS world, where I think  
people are more clueful about mailing lists in general.  Certainly  
Mailman has a history of catering to FLOSS project needs, but I think  
it is worthwhile to explore the use cases for announce lists, and try  
to understand how to make their lives easier.  I'm all for doing  
whatever we can to help smaller community organizations get a better  
tool.

With Mailman 3 we'll be able to implement list styles much more  
easily, not just in the way lists are configured, but throughout the  
stack, including the pipeline handlers and the posting rules.  I think  
the right way to do this is to have a few canned styles that you can  
use easily to enable things like 1-click unsubscribes.

I generally don't like 1-click unsubs but I recognize that this is an  
important use case in the real world, and it's probably better to have  
the risk of people getting unsub'd against their will than to have the  
entire site get blacklisted from AOL because of a cluser.

- -Barry

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