It's arguable whether that will unsubscribe them, or confirm to the
spammer that they've scored a direct hit, and make your users a more
valuable spam target.  Think about it: Is someone who just hijacked a
Taiwanese elementary school's mail server to send out necrophilia
pornography with forged headers, likely to honor their promise to
unsubscribe your users?

-tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Leon Oosterwijk
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe
> 
> All, 
> 
> I would like some feedback from you all on the following 
> idea. What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all 
> emails that came through it's filter for emails that are 
> obviously spam. This way people would automatically get 
> unsubbed from some of these lists. 
> 
> Leon


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