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Re: in case you missed this from ponik



Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Jeronimo Pellegrini did write:

> > > To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on
> > > each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are
> > > subscribed as wankstain@luser.org, to remove send a message _from that
> > > address_ to xxx@example.com with the magic word."  That way, the
> > > clueless would have a fighting chance at getting off the list.
> > > If they are still incapable, perhaps they will include the tagline in their
> > > quoted reply so that others can take the appropriate action.
> 
> Agreed. Absolutely a good thing! Wishlist bug against lists.debian.org?
> 
> > > I don't know how hard or easy this would be to implement, but it sounds
> > > nontrivial.  I suppose there are some privacy / archival issues, such as
> > > the desire to scrub mailing list archives of email addresses to foil
> > > spambots.
> 
> But since the e-mail would be set to a different string for every copy
> that is sent, it would make more sense if the software sent it to the archives
> before inserting an address.

...except for the archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/.

Richard


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