> On Jun 10, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Vick Khera <vi...@khera.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Laura Atkins <la...@wordtothewise.com 
> <mailto:la...@wordtothewise.com>> wrote:
>> The beauty of the proposal is that you can with some cooperation of the mail 
>> user agent convert the two-click unsub into a one-click.
> 
> And the failure of this proposal is that it requires the MUA to change 
> current behavior without a clear benefit to doing so. It also means there can 
> be no partial adoption or roll out. ESPs and ISPs need to coordinate on a 
> flag day for the new changes. All of this makes it a hard sell for a lot of 
> people. 
> 
> I'm not following why there has to be a flag day for the change. I as the ESP 
> give you the ISP a hint to make something work "better" for the end user. If 
> you don't act on the hint, the unsubscribe is still possible and works just 
> fine with a second click. If I don't give you a hint, then the same happens. 
> If you do follow my hint, then the user has an optimized experience of 
> one-click unsubscribe. The other benefit is that scanners will not cause the 
> unsubscribe.


You demonstrated the need for a flag day when you stated that the ESPs need to 
give the ISPs “a hint” that things are changing. Expecting every ESP to contact 
every ISP is ridiculous. 

laura 

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