[Volunteers] Re: Footers (was Re: [Techtalk] "I need to use Windows because ...")

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Mon Aug 12 20:01:27 EST 2002


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 15:46, Terri Oda wrote:
> > There's actually some reason mailman doesn't do this by default (and
> > it's not lack of knowing the convention), but I don't recall what it
> > is.   I don't suppose anyone else does?
> 
> The one that comes immediately to mind is 'hey, let's make sure we
> inform the reader that this is a mailing list they subscribed to and
> can unsubscribe to, and not random spam'

Yeah, because random spammers always put their "How to unsubscribe"
insturctions right at the top, never ever at the bottom ;) There's even
a "This is not spam" SpamAssassin rule :)

-Mary.



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