[SC-Help] Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

[Mike Easter]

Qman wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>>  I still think there is something different
>> about the header condition of those who have trouble unsubscribing,
>> but it is too hard for me to find and analyze the ng items which are
>> from the mailing list.
>>
>
> And if the OP, allegedly the "DomainMaster" of "World Wide Web
> Specialists International, Inc.", can't figure it out, somethin' ain't
> right . . .

It seems to me that the people who are having trouble with unsubscribing
have more complicated headers re the From and Reply-To than is
'necessary'.

In this case, those two lines look like this:

From: "Alan E. Hageman" <alan at mail.secureyour.net>
Reply-To: "Alan E. Hageman" <support at wwwsi.net>, Help about SpamCop and
spam [ME: include a lot of whitespace and a return in here]
<spamcop-help at news.spamcop.net>

and if I 'fake' reply to all, I get a newsgroup post and an email
addressed to support at wwwsi.net

My thinking is that in the process of trying to unsubscribe, the
'multiple addresses' addressee is getting the unsub confirmatory email
sent someplace which doesn't 'fit' the process or with their own mail
handling, and so the unsub doesn't work right, ie get confirmed
'properly'.

Whereas a 'normal' mailing list news item has headers like this:

From: David Pinkham <dpink at cox.net>
Reply-To: Help about SpamCop and spam <spamcop-help at news.spamcop.net>

and if I fake a reply to all, I get a newsgroup post and an email to
spamcop-help.


<For those who worry about my 'exposing' the header addies in the body
of this msg, according to 'statistics' spambots harvest from Froms, but
the incidence of harvesting from Reply-To or msg body is negligible.
So, the 'worst' thing here is the From exposure in the From, not my
exposures in the body.>


-- 
Mike Easter