The difficulty with footers as you describe, is that unless
you strip MIME content before the list sees the message, a
footer might be appended after a MIME boundary and never be
seen by the end subscribers.
What would be even nicer, is the distribution software
recognizing a message with a single word in the body of a
message and programaticly react to it, rather than letting
all the subscribers see the removal request. Either way, I
only hope my "how to" message helps those that did not know.
Dan Liston
Beckie Pack wrote:
> It might be nice to have a footer at the bottom that claims
>
> "This is not SPAM. You are receiving this because you are on this list
> bla bla bla. To have yourself removed, please click here or send an
> email to bla bla bla.
>
> I do that on all my lists and it works fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Beckie
> http://www.seventhpower.biz/ISP/?userid=31928
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Daniel Liston wrote:
>
>> I have seen quite a few messages to this distribution list
>> with just the word "remove" in the message body. For those
>> members wishing to discontinue their subscription, please
>> heed the following instructions;
>>
>> The address to use for removal is different than that of
>> the list itself. You need to send your request to either
>> majordomo@greatcircle.com or majordomo-users-request at
>> the same domain. Which address you use will also determine
>> whether you use one word or two in the message body of your
>> request.
>>
>> Example1:
>>
>> To: majordomo@greatcircle.com
>> From: you@your.address
>> Subject: does not matter
>>
>> unsubscribe majordomo-users
>>
>>
>> Example2:
>>
>> To: majordomo-users-request@greatcircle.com
>> From: you@your.address
>> Subject: does not matter
>>
>> unsubscribe
>>
>>
>> In example1, you are writing to the server address that
>> manages all mailing lists for the site or domain, which
>> is why you must specify the name of the list to be
>> removed from in the message body.
>>
>> In example2, you are making your request through the
>> same management tool as example1, but through an address
>> that can extrapolate the name of the list automatically.
>>
>> Dan Liston
>>
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