Ian Eiloart wrote: > --On 18 February 2009 14:26:11 -0800 Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> > wrote: > > >> Jim Potter wrote: >> >>> please remove me from your mailing list. thank you. >>> >>> >> The instructions for you to follow to get this done are in the headers of >> every post from this list server. It's pretty much self-service. >> >> dp >> _______________________________________________ >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net >> http://www.clamav.net/support/ml >> > > Can we not have the list unsubscribe link in the footer, too? It's a legal > requirement in the UK to have an easy to use mechanism to unsubscribe to > marketing emails. The definition of marketing would definitely extend to > promotion of free open source software. Whether it also extends to a > support list like this might be debatable, but surely the developers of > software developed mainly in response to the spamming industry ought to be > following best practice. > > As long as most MTAs don't expose the List-Unsubscribe: header (none do by > default, as far as I'm aware), it can't be described as "easy to use". Some > MTAs even make it really hard to find the full message headers. > > > > > Seeing this list is clearly an OPT-IN affair, those rules are mostly irrelevant, and - as stated - the required info *is* provided...
Having said that, I do think it would be a good idea to expose the unsubscribe link in the footer, even though nobody will read it anyway... ;) --FP _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
