[ih] No, really, I want to stay subscribed

Joe Touch touch at isi.edu
Wed Aug 24 17:44:18 PDT 2016



On 8/24/2016 11:34 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> So who the hell is vaderetro-safeunsubscribe.com, and why is it trying 
>> to unsubscribe people from internet-history?
>
> I know people at Vade Retro.  They're a legit service that manages
> unsubscribes for bulk mailers like Constant Contact.
Any chance of getting them to contact me? I pinged them via their online
form yesterday, but no response.

> I can think of a variety of ways that IH mail might be getting to
> them, none of them pretty.
AFAICT, someone on this list subscribed to their service.

> If Joe has problems tracking down the offender, I could probably
> send them some headers with timestamps and IDs and they could look
> at their logs to see where they're coming from.

FYI, the current plan is to send direct mail to each person on this list
(once I get that list of emails from our comp center - they're a bit
busy with some restructuring) and see whose mail generates an unsub for me.

Joe



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