Please cancel my subscription

[George Arseneault]

--- jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: "Charles Curley"
> <charlescurley at charlescurley.com>
> 
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:37:53PM -0500, Gene
> Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 26 January 2007 16:29, Nigel Henry
> wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> > 
> > Nigel, the problem in most cases is the placement
> of the unsubscribe 
> > links.  Many email agents clip off anything after
> the "newline dash dash 
> > space" signature delimiter, so they never, ever
> see the unsubscribe 
> > instructions.
> 
> I've never seen an email client do this (which
> doesn't mean I claim it
> doesn't happen). I believe doing so violates the
> relevant RFCs. The
> best we can do is best effort. If some ignoramus is
> using a
> non-standard mail reader, I feel no obligation to
> extend myself to
> handle their situation. Especially as I would find
> putting the
> unsubscribe notice at the top of every email
> unacceptably obnoxious.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I understand Yahoo web mail does this as a primary
> offender.
> {^_^}
> 

Sorry, I use yahoo web mail... I see the sigs just
fine

George



 
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