Re: [ADMIN] Lyris upgrade "faq-maintainers@lists.consensus.com" <faq-maintainers@lists.consensus.com>

Jeff Knapp (director@gti.net)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:28:21 -0400 (EDT)

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>
> Well, obviously because they are mailto: URLs. Why, I can't
> say for sure. Probably has to do with the growing
> integration of mailers with web browsers. If a
> browser/mailer recognizes these headers, then the user only
> has to click on the List-Unsubscribe URL to leave the list.
> You'll note that no message is needed, only the address. So
> far, I think mailers integrated with browsers are a
> disaster. But they are here, and if they have useful
> capabilities, we might as well enable them. In this case,
> it does make subscription maintenance easier for the
> subscriber, while keeping the information unobtrusive -- no
> 10-line appendix on every message saying how to
> unsubscribe.

On the other hand, the 3.0 versions of Pegasus Mail support this, so when
I get a message in Pegasus with these headers, it gives me options within
the body of the message to help unsubscribe from the list... so its not
only browsers... some mail clients are able to take care of these issues
too.

Jeff

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