Please cancel my subscription

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Fri Jan 26 23:43:42 UTC 2007


Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:37:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett 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.
>
> [...] Especially as I would find putting the
> unsubscribe notice at the top of every email unacceptably obnoxious.
>

Not only would it be annoying; it would add text to the body of a message,
likely invalidating any cryptographic message signature such as OpenPGP or
S/MIME (X.509-based).
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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