Subject: Re: unsubscribe
From: Richard E. Brown (Richard.E.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU )
Date: Fri Oct 22 1999 - 07:14:11 MDT
Folks:
--- Someone wrote:
yellowdog-general-unsubscribe@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
--- end of quote ---
RFC 2369 specifies a series of mail headers that contains exactly this information. It seems to be catching on, and we can further its acceptance by adopting it for ourselves. I found a copy at:
http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt
Examples of legal "unsubscribe" headers are shown below; there are equivalent subscribe/help/post/owner/archive headers defined as well.
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:list@host.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Unsubscribe: (Use this command to get off the list)
<mailto:list-manager@host.com?body=unsubscribe%20list>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:list-off@host.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.host.com/list.cgi?cmd=unsub&lst=list>,
<mailto:list-request@host.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Dan: Could you add these headers to the YDL lists? Maybe we can prevent a few of these messages. Thanks!
Rich Brown richard.e.brown@dartmouth.edu
Manager of Special Projects
Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/netsoftware
6028 Kiewit Computer Center Telephone: 603/646-3648
Hanover, NH 03755-3523 USA Fax: 603/646-2810
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