[SpamCop-List] Re: take me off this fucking list

[Socks the white house cat]

Someday in the distant future, archeologists digging thru the ruins of
spamcop  will discover that Michael Lefevre
<michael.spamcop at michaellefevre.com> had this to say on 21 Apr 2004: 

> Marjolein Katsma wrote:
>> Michael Lefevre (michael.spamcop at michaellefevre.com) wrote in
>> news:c65rs6 $2l0$1 at news.spamcop.net:
>>
>>> so, it's easier just to give people the URL.
>>
>> Then why don't the mail headers do this?
> 
> They do. The only issue is that they also give the mailto:, which I
> don't think works.  The URL is also, apparently, in a footer to each
> message body.
> 
> If people don't look at the instructions they are sent when signing
> up, the footers in the body of each message, or the message headers, I
> don't know what else can be done...
> 

I help manage some optin lists.  I always tell people that I never 
respond to requests from someone to unsubscribe them from the list in any 
fashion other than asking them to document the error message they got 
when following the directions.  On the rare occasions that the address on 
the list autoforwards to their real address, and they dont have access to 
the forwarding address, then I help.  

However, it is perfectly reasonable to assume that, given that the real 
list subscriber has unsub instructions at the bottom of each message, 
that any message asking me to bypass that process is a forgery, and the 
sender can't follow the normal unsub instructions because the sender 
isn't receiving the messages that contain the normal unsub instructions.

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