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List-Unsubscribe

I tend to swing back and forth with my mailing list subscription habits. The two endpoints of the pendulum's path are:

I rarely read this list, but a have a rule that puts it in its own folder so it's always there if I ever do want to read it
I rarely read this list and it's cluttering my mailer with 10,000 unread messages so I'll unsubscribe

I'm currently on a swing to the second one.

In one case, I wasn't immediately sure how to unsubscribe from the list, so I looked at the raw headers for the List-Unsubscribe field (described in RFC2369). Sure enough, it was there.

It would be really nice if more mail apps supported this. Okay, it would be really nice if Mail.app supported this :-)

Comments (3)

Ben Bangert on Aug. 18, 2007:

Mail.app does support hit, its Show Headers, or cmd-shift-h. I've used that to find the unsubscribe email in the past as well.

James Tauber on Aug. 18, 2007:

Well, it lets you see the headers, which is exactly what I looked at, but the URL isn't clickable. I was thinking it could provide an explicit action "unsubscribe from this list"

Edward O'Connor on Aug. 18, 2007:

There's another option: unsubscribe from all of them, and read them via Gmane in your preferred Usenet newsreader.