On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Forrest Joyner wfj@usa.com wrote:
——>>>> Perhaps if the list owner would add a tag to the lines at the bottom, as many lists do, that says: “to UNSUBSCRIBE click here:” and the list URL. I’m sure that wouldn’t 100% fix it, but it might be an assisting step or at least something those who are ruffled could point to in disgust. :)
This is actually included in every message, but it's in the headers. Here's an example:
List-Unsubscribe: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users, mailto:chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com?subject=unsubscribe
This is the "correct" way to provide an unsubscribe link, as specified in RFC 2369 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html. Capable MUAs should present this to the user in the form of a big unsubscribe button. Unfortunately, many users will use MUAs that don't support this.
On a grander scale, I have to wonder how these users got subscribed in the first place. The subscribe and unsubscribe processes are the same, so they most have been capable of figuring it out at some point if they successfully subscribed. Luckily, this also means most users incapable of unsubscribing themselves will never figure out how to subscribe in the first place.
Tom KD7LXL