David <d...@fiteyes.com> wrote: > >The main issue is that we include a personalized "instant unsubscribe" link >in the footer, no password required. Our users seem to really want/need >this. Many times they cannot unsubscribe themselves with any other method >we have tried. However, we did not initially consider that any one person >can easily unsubscribe another person in the thread because of the >accumulated footers.
This is the danger of including an 'instant, no confirmation required' unsubscribe link in list messages. My experience based on running Topica.com lists for some time is that you can mung or remove the instant unsub URL in messages that pass back through the list (Topica does this), but this is only a partial solution. Your users will still forward list posts to others 'off list' and the others will click the link thinking they are unsubscribing themselves or just out of curiousity or maliciously to 'teach a lesson'. You've probably thought about this and feel that even the simple confirmation email from an unsub without password is too high a hurdle for some of your users, but I'm surprised that other users are not complaining about your mailing passwords in the clear with every list post. Stephen has just replied with most of what I was going to add to this, so I'll let you digest that, and if you need more specific coding or regexp help, let us know. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
