On Friday 26 January 2007 18:37, Charles Curley wrote: >On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:37:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 26 January 2007 16:29, Nigel Henry wrote: >> [...] >> >> >> Nigel, the problem in most cases is the placement of the unsubscribe >> links. Many email agents clip off anything after the "newline dash >> dash space" signature delimiter, so they never, ever see the >> unsubscribe instructions. > >I've never seen an email client do this (which doesn't mean I claim it >doesn't happen). I believe doing so violates the relevant RFCs. The >best we can do is best effort. If some ignoramus is using a >non-standard mail reader, I feel no obligation to extend myself to >handle their situation. Especially as I would find putting the >unsubscribe notice at the top of every email unacceptably obnoxious. No argument from me on that point. But you'll also note that the unsub links are missing as I sent this, because kmail stripped them off and substituted my sig. In other words, the reader does see them, the composer doesn't. This may be an RFC violation but its a sensible way to do it to me. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
