[Mailman-Users] Question:

[Kyle Rhorer]

On Friday 06 September 2002 01:17, Rajib A. Momen wrote:
> It seems kind of redundant to sign up on a web site,
> enter a password, and then have to reply to a message to confirm,
> since you just signed up!

This seems to be a FAQ, although I don't recall if it is addressed in 
the actual FAQ document.  Anyway, there are two reasons to have the 
confirmation message even when signing up on the web site.  First, it 
verifies that the email address the web user entered is valid and can 
receive mail.  Second, it helps prevent one person from maliciously 
subscribing another.  Remember that anyone can enter any email address 
on the web form, but it's likely that only the subscribee will receive 
(and therefore reply to) the confirmation message.

> Secondly, I was wondering
> if it was possible to set a list so that you could unsubscribe from
> it by email without inputting the password.

Another pseudo-FAQ.  The password requirement helps prevent malicious or 
unauthorized unsubscribes.  Anyone who is capable of using an Internet 
email client should also be capable of providing the password in order 
to unsubscribe.  It's really not difficult.

Kyle