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Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Feb 25 12:15:09 2009

In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251205070.72677@nog.angryox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:44:14 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> wrote=
:
> =C2=A0Why the hell can't AOL integrate the standard listserv commands int=
egrated
> =C2=A0into many subscription emails into a friggin' button in their email
> =C2=A0client, right next to "Spam" (or even in place of it) that says
> =C2=A0"Unsubscribe?"

Because a lot of spammers would prefer that people simply unsub from
their lists rather than they get blocked?

And because unsub urls could lead to a lot of nastiness if theres a
truly malicious spammer?

And because .. [lots of other reasons]

There are a few (sender driven) initiatives to move towards a trusted
unsubscribe, but ..

--srs

--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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