[Mailman-Users] Turning off confirmation

[Mark Sapiro]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>
>Thank you Mark. Any chance of having it (unsubscribe without
>confirmation) as an option one day? I run two quite large mailing
>lists (12 and 28K subscribers) and I find that the biggest frustration
>for people is when they are tring to unsubscribe (confirmation email
>may get lost, be sent to spam, etc.) but somehow fail.


I sympathize with the frustration, and in your environment, unconfirmed
unsubscribe might work, but in general, I think it makes it too easy
for usera, upon seeing a 'disagreeable' post from userb, to just
unsubscribe userb from the list.


>However, I know I am using Mailman only because there are people like
>you who develop it, so many thanks for your work anyway!


You could always try your hand at a patch <wink>.

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