[Mailman-Users] Question:

[hotmail user]

The confirmation is in place, because, mm doesn't know for sure that
it was actually **you** who signed up, and not some "well meaning"
friend or pervert playing silly games. Without the confirmation process
anyone could go to unpteen number of signup sites and gratuiously 
sign up your email address for enough email to fill your mail box in less 
than an hour. With confirmation process, you only need to **not** reply 
to the confirm, and, the request to join is never completed. Confirmation 
message also tells  you the IP address where the request originated, 
allowing you to report the pervert to their ISP or boss. 

In the footer it's possible to incude something like: 

To unsubscribe, click below, and replace "YOUR_PASSWORD" with your real password after "%20":<DIV><nobr><A href="mailto:mailman-users-request at python.org?subject=unsubscribe%20YOUR_PASSWORD">mailto:mailman-users-request at python.org?subject=unsubscribe%20YOUR_PASSWORD</A></nobr></DIV>

tom
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rajib A. Momen 
  To: mailman-users at python.org 
  Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:17 AM
  Subject: [Mailman-Users] Question:


  Hi there,

   

  I was curious if there is a way to bypass the email confirmation of a subscription. It seems kind of redundant to sign up on a web site, enter a password, and then have to reply to a message to confirm, since you just signed up! Is this possible? Secondly, I was wondering if it was possible to set a list so that you could unsubscribe from it by email without inputting the password. For example, if I wanted the bottom of all my messages to have a link or very, very simple instructions on how to unsubscribe, how would I go about doing this? Currently it seems that the user MUST input his/her password. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

   

  Best regards,

  Rajib Momen

   

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