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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On 6/29/16 4:54 PM, Adam Bernstein (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:

> > Yes, this is possible, but (since the link is personalised to each user)
> > you need to use the MailMerge feature to do it.  There is also the issue
> > that some webmail systems may pre-fetch any URLs in order to test them
> > (Gmail does this) which can result in users being unsubscribed simply by
> > viewing the email.  Making a 'click to confirm' could help with this.
>
> I'll echo Steve's warning - that fact is the whole frustrating reason 
> that we haven't rolled out single-click unsubscribe, despite a great 
> need for it among our users - but I will add one possibly simpler 
> solution:
>
> Instead of going all the way to an unsubscribe link, you could instead 
> just add a "This message was sent to <email>" or "You are subscribed 
> as <email>" to the footer. That way, the non-technical user still has 
> much better information than they have now, with no risk of 
> complications. We're planning to implement that compromise idea, just 
> haven't gotten to it yet.

I guess we also get into the hassle of generating that many more email 
messages - It's kind of hard to bundle up 50 messages to one ISP, if 
each message is customized.  Sigh...

Thanks,

Miles



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