[138688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Switching Email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sat Mar 12 08:17:31 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D7AE85E.6080400@utc.edu>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:16:19 -0500
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
> On 3/11/2011 8:24 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>> --- bill@herrin.us wrote:
>> From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
>>
>> No, it isn't. Contrary to mailing list best practices, NANOG
>> unsubscribe information is stubbornly stashed in the email headers
>> ----------------------------------------------
>>
>> That's a feature. =A0Not a bug. =A0:-)
>
> Actually, it's RFC 2369 =A0:)
Anyone have a list of MUAs that actually support RFC 2369 with
subscription management widgets in the GUI? Surely someone has written
one but I can't seem to find any documentation to that effect.
On the other hand, the very first guideline at
http://www.mail-abuse.com/an_listmgntgdlines.html is:
"Mailing list administrators must provide [...] clear and effective
instructions for unsubscribing from a mailing list." Hidden in the
headers is rather less than clear or effective.
Even that lightweight, the CAN-SPAM act, calls for each message to
contain "clear and conspicuous notice of the opportunity [...] to
decline to receive further" messages.
-Bill
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