Russ Allbery wrote,
| ... it's what ezmlm uses, but ezmlm also puts [the confirmation cookie] in
| the Reply-To header which means it's subject to false positives from
| autoresponders.
And false positives from people who don't read the text and then write back
asking, "What the profanity is this profanity?" or yelling, "Stop sending me
this profanity!" That confirms them, they are now subscribed, and some of
them continue sending similar responses to every post they receive.
A couple days ago somebody here posted a method of requiring a response that
not only quotes the cookie from the body but also modifies it slightly (add-
ing the word "yes" in the right place or something like that). That prevents
both automatic responders and automoton responders from being confirmed.
| Just putting in the body might work better, although I wonder if the
| address would confuse people.
The ezmlm-style reply address already confuses people. I belong to a dozen-
plus lists on Onelist, which uses a modification of ezmlm (or at least it
looks like it to me), and people are always attempting to confirm their de-
sires to unsub by thinking that long funny address can't be right, truncating
it to the listname and domain, and posting "Yes, thank you, I do want to un-
subscribe" to the list.
