[Way OT] Re: [SGVLUG] REMOVE

[Emerson, Tom]

>-----Original Message-----
> Leyva, Robert
>
> Perhaps we can adjust the email newsletter program to have
> an "unsubscribe link" in each email, so they can just click
> it to be removed?

Actually, "out of the box" the list-management software does this, but I nixed that idea [and it's in the archive as to why]

http://www.sgvlug.net/pipermail/sgvlug/2005-June/000006.html
and
http://www.sgvlug.net/pipermail/sgvlug/2005-June/000011.html

Of course, "at the time" there were only a few people loaded in the list, so this discussion wasn't all that widespread.  The other reason I don't like list-supplied-trailers is that you get this situation (taken from a live list):

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(and it only gets worse when someone replies to the digest with a "me too" message)