[ih] Email reliability

[Jack Haverty]

Control-U in Thunderbird shows all headers.  You're right, there is an 
unsubscribe in the header from the isoc list, but Thunderbird at least 
doesn't seem to do anything with it.   Many mailing lists put an 
unsubscribe link in the footer they insert at the bottom of each message 
as it passes through.

I looked at the headers in one of the messages this morning.  But it was 
one I received directly, rather than through the mailing list. So it had 
no unsubscribe header.   Curious, I still haven't gotten any of this 
morning's messages (Andy, me, you, Dave) via the internet-history route, 
but the direct copy arrived intact.  Perhaps isoc is down...

Jack


On 1/14/24 11:03, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history<jack at 3kitty.org>  said:
>> "Bulk senders are expected to include a mechanism to unsubscribe by
>> adding an easy to find link within the message.
> They're mostly talking about commercial bulk senders, not mailing lists.
>
>> At least I don't see any "unsubscribe" header...
> Tell Thunderbird to show you all the headers. It's there. I don't know
> why T'bird doesn't provide a button for it in the UI. Even Alpine, the
> oldest and cruddiest MUA around, does.
>
> R's,
> John

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