Jered Floyd writes:

 > Is there any way to provide personalized List-Unsubscribe header
 > links,

Google should do it in their implementation -- they know which of
dozens of equivalent addresses the post was sent to, and it's quite
likely to be available in the header of the delivered post (and if not
it's easy to add).

For Mailman, not without adding a new feature.  The current approach
takes the sender of the "unsubscribe" message as the address to
unsubscribe.  While this is not currently hard to spoof, it does cut
down on mere mischief.  If spoofing becomes a problem, it would be
sraightforward to check for From alignment, which should make spoofing
very hard, as the overwhelming majority of users use providers who
DKIM sign and check the login.  An URL which specifies the address to
unsubscribe would need to be authenticated in a different way,
requiring a different command for a MAILTO URL, or a different scheme
such as HTTPS.

 > or have Mailman ignore dots in gmail.com addresses...

I think we already canonicalize addresses to lowercase, and I'm
unaware of problems with that, as apparently essentially all providers
ignore case.  Theoretically we could do that, but ... catering to
Google breakage?!  I'll do it for money, maybe somebody else will
volunteer.

If we're talking about a new feature, I think the most straightforward
approach is to use RFC 8058[1] "one click" URLs.  I believe it is
already implemented by Gmail and Yahoo, I don't know about Outlook or
the open source MUAs.  This would require a substantial (but
straightforward[2]) addition of code, and of course personalized
delivery (I don't know if anyone balks at that any more, though).

 > or... anything? I'm finding reported spam percentages
 > in the Google Postmaster Dashboard exceeding 0.1%, which causes
 > massive delivery blocking to GMail-based subscribers.

That's obnoxious.  If they can get reported spam rates down to 0,1%,
almost certainly 90% of reports are subscriber malfeasance or
incompetence!

 > While I would gladly ban everyone who uses gmail, that sadly
 > accounts for about half of the Internet today and would be
 > incredibly unproductive.

Aw, c'mon, be a hero! (^^)  Gmail has gotten so enshittified, but it
just doesn't seem to matter, does it.

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058

[2]  That is, we'd need to add a new location in Postorius and code to
accept POST access to it, encrypt/decrypt functionality to handle an
opaque token (to prevent automated denial of service by folks without
access to the person's email) or a table of one-time tokens with
expiration (same purpose, and expiring so the database doesn't grow
infinitely).  What we wouldn't need to do is to change any exsting
code.

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