[Mailman-Developers] Re: Todo list questions

Scott scott@chronis.pobox.com
Thu, 7 May 1998 14:46:55 -0400


my personal vote on this is to have the confirmation set up so that
you can just reply to it to trigger subscription. 

scott

On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 09:52:19AM -0700, John Viega wrote:
| > For example, how about when someone hits reply, cites the entire
| > confirmation template, but adds at the top or bottom "What the hell is
| > going on, i never asked to subscribe, why did i get sent this?!"  It
| > would be Not Good (tm) if our mechanism saw the subscription
| > confirmation message cited in its entirety and took it as confirmation,
| > ay? 
| 
| Well, if the title is: REPLY TO CONFIRM YOUR SUBSCRIPTION [SOMECODE#]
| 
| Then you would hope people won't make that mistake.
| I'm sure some people will nonetheless :)
| 
| John
| 
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