Gary L. Burnore
gburn...@databasix.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users-
> boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Ian Eiloart
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:51 AM
> To: ClamAV users ML
> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] please remove
>
>
>
> --On 18 February 2009 14:26:11 -0800 Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Jim Potter wrote:
> >> please remove me from your mailing list. thank you.
> >>
> >
> > The instructions for you to follow to get this done are in the headers
> of
> > every post from this list server. It's pretty much self-service.
> >
> > dp
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> Can we not have the list unsubscribe link in the footer, too? It's a legal
> requirement in the UK to have an easy to use mechanism to unsubscribe to
> marketing emails. The definition of marketing would definitely extend to
> promotion of free open source software. Whether it also extends to a
> support list like this might be debatable,
That's not even remotely logical. One needs to subscribe and approve a
subscription to this list. It is, in no way, a marketing email.
> but surely the developers of
> software developed mainly in response to the spamming industry ought to be
> following best practice.
Best practice is to have a challenge system set up for subscribing. That's
been done.
> As long as most MTAs don't expose the List-Unsubscribe: header (none do by
> default, as far as I'm aware), it can't be described as "easy to use".
If you can figure out how to subscribe, you can figure out how to
unsubscribe. It's a standard mailing list, not a one way advertisement.
> Some MTAs even make it really hard to find the full message headers.
MTA's? HUH? Maybe you mean mail clients, mot MTA?
Either way, it'd be NICE to put something in the footer, but nothing demands
it, it's not a best practices issue and it's certainly not illegal for it
not to be there.
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