[chirp_users] How in the world . . . .

[Tom Hayward]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Forrest Joyner <wfj at usa.com> wrote:
> ——>>>> Perhaps if the list owner would add a tag to the lines at the bottom,
> as many lists do, that says: “to UNSUBSCRIBE click here:” and the list URL.
> I’m sure that wouldn’t 100% fix it, but it might be an assisting step or at
> least something those who are ruffled could point to in disgust.  :)

This is actually included in every message, but it's in the headers.
Here's an example:

List-Unsubscribe: <http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users>,
<mailto:chirp_users-request at intrepid.danplanet.com?subject=unsubscribe>

This is the "correct" way to provide an unsubscribe link, as specified
in RFC 2369 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html. Capable MUAs should
present this to the user in the form of a big unsubscribe button.
Unfortunately, many users will use MUAs that don't support this.

On a grander scale, I have to wonder how these users got subscribed in
the first place. The subscribe and unsubscribe processes are the same,
so they most have been capable of figuring it out at some point if
they successfully subscribed. Luckily, this also means most users
incapable of unsubscribing themselves will never figure out how to
subscribe in the first place.

Tom KD7LXL