At 10:17 AM -0700 8/7/03, Scott Nelson wrote:
I propose standardizing an SMTP level error code to mean "unsubscribe".
I chose "578 5.7.8 Unsubscribe" which would be returned immediately
after the RCPT command. It could be thought of as a "that user
does not consent to any further email from you" but I prefer
the single word "unsubscribe".
Because it contains no token which proves that you actually received
any of the messages you are unsubscribing from, it's susceptible to
abuse (unsubscribing people against their will). Also I doubt that
most commercial mailers would go for it because it has very limited
granularity. You might fire off such a message in response to some
mail from a idiot who bought a CD and unwittingly remove yourself
from the lists of several of your favorite software vendors--because
they all happened to use the same bulk mail provider.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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