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Subject: Re: Subscription Authorization
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: Netscape Communications Corp.
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:13:56 -0500
To: "Michael R. Welch" <mrwelch @ free-pctech-support . com>
Cc: Majordomo-users <Majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <DFENLLABALALOMAPAHJEKEGFCFAA.mrwelch@free-pctech-support.com>

You "could" edit the ~majordomo/majordomo file between lines 1620-16?? 
to read; (+ signs in column 1 indicate new text)

Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added
to or deleted from the mailing list "$list\@$whereami".

+A confirmation message is required to complete this request.
If you really want this action to be taken, please send the following
commands (exactly as shown) back to "$whoami":

        auth $cookie $cmd $list $subscriber

+If your email client is web savy, you can click the following link to
+properly fill out an email with all the correct commands to confirm
+your request, then click "send".
+
+mailto:majordomo\@$whereami?subject=Confirm&body=auth%20$cookie%20$cmd%20$list%20$subscriber&body=END
+
If you do not want this action to be taken, simply ignore this message
and the request will be disregarded.


I have also created this as a patch/diff file. For anyone interested, it is
attached to this message.

Dan Liston

"Michael R. Welch" wrote:
> 
> I tested my subscription authorization on the most likely person I knew to
> get confused by the majordomo emails. Has anyone tweaked thier system out to
> send messages that actually make sense to an easily confused person? It
> would be nice if it was actually clear that the user needs to copy and paste
> the authorization code and subcribe commands into the very first line of the
> reply message. Either that or an easier way to get the job done via email.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael Welch
--- majordomo	Thu Jan 20 17:23:08 2000
+++ majordomo.new	Thu Oct 18 13:42:07 2001
@@ -1620,10 +1620,17 @@
 Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added
 to or deleted from the mailing list "$list\@$whereami".
 
+A confirmation message is required to complete this request.
 If you really want this action to be taken, please send the following
 commands (exactly as shown) back to "$whoami":
 
 	auth $cookie $cmd $list $subscriber
+
+If your email client is web savy, you can click the following link to
+properly fill out an email with all the correct commands to confirm
+your request, then click "send".
+
+mailto:majordomo\@$whereami?subject=Confirm&body=auth%20$cookie%20$cmd%20$list%20$subscriber&body=END
 
 If you do not want this action to be taken, simply ignore this message
 and the request will be disregarded.

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