Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Uhm, yeah, alas, far too often lists get hit with such requests. Below I copy boilerplate response (alas, as a listadmin) to seeing far too many such requests (e.g. emails to listadmins, or posts (or attempted posts) to lists, much etc.), plus with that, just some modest changes to make it (more)

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

James H. H. Lampert (HE12025-07-25): > Actually, no, it began breaking browsers when it tried to over-control them, > and began to depend on features that weren't universally implemented, > ignoring the principle of "graceful degradation," that was one of the > founding principles of the web. Yes,

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On 7/25/25 11:24 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Remember the web? It started becoming usable for decent layout when it stopped applying this principle and trying to make something decent out of any soup of tags. Actually, no, it began breaking browsers when it tried to over-control them, and began

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The Wanderer (HE12025-07-25): > It's actually a programming guideline: applications should do their best > to handle wide-ranging input (including malformed input) appropriately, > but should constrain themselves to only emitting strictly-defined and > well-formed output. And even in programming,

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On 2025-07-25 at 13:07, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM Greg wrote: > >> On 2025-07-21, Anders Andersson wrote: >> >>> At some point you have to stop pandering to the absolute lowest >>> common denominator. >> >> Postel's law: >> >> "Be liberal in what you accept, an

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On 25 Jul 2025, at 18:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote:On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM Greg wrote:On 2025-07-21, Anders Andersson wrote: > > At some point you have to stop pandering to the absolute lowest common > denominator. Postel's law: "Be liberal in wha

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-21, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > > At some point you have to stop pandering to the absolute lowest common > > denominator. > > Postel's law: > > "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. That's from a bygone er

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On 2025-07-21, Anders Andersson wrote: > > At some point you have to stop pandering to the absolute lowest common > denominator. Postel's law: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."

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On 2025-07-21 08:23, Anders Andersson wrote: It's bad enough with everyone's signature and people who quote them when replying. Your name is already in the header. It used to be possible to add custom headers to email messages but I've forgotten how to do it. mick

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/7/25 17:37, Thomas Southerland wrote: > > > > On 7/20/25 5:21 AM, Mathew Alexander wrote: > >> Mathew Alexander > >> mat...@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > > > > To uns

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Maybe the List-Unsubscribe header would help, > > . The list software can > > add it without worrying about breaking DKIM signat

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:39:32PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Maybe the List-Unsubscribe header would help, > . The list software can > add it without worrying about breaking DKIM signatures. > > A good user agent would display a UI widget to

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > > the mailing list messages, something like > > > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 21/7/25 03:06, Lee wrote: > > > > > It's in the mail headers - which the 'please unsubscribe me' people > > don't know exists, > > "There are more things, in heaven and earth, than man has ever dreamed > of"... > > :) > > Not only the " 'pl

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On 21/7/25 03:06, Lee wrote: It's in the mail headers - which the 'please unsubscribe me' people don't know exists, "There are more things, in heaven and earth, than man has ever dreamed of"... :) Not only the " 'please unsubscribe me' people " did not know that exists... "The more we

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/7/25 17:37, Thomas Southerland wrote: > > > > On 7/20/25 5:21 AM, Mathew Alexander wrote: > >> Mathew Alexander > >> mat...@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > >> WebRep > >> Overall rating > >> > > > > To unsub

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* On 2025 20 Jul 12:08 -0500, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > Sorry, I meant digital signatures. Mailing list messing with the body > > means that the signature is no longer valid. > > Strange, I have in my archives mails from that mailing-list that are > digitally signed

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > Sorry, I meant digital signatures. Mailing list messing with the body > means that the signature is no longer valid. Strange, I have in my archives mails from that mailing-list that are digitally signed, where a footer with unsubscribe instructions was added, and mu

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On Jul 20, 2025, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo > > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that. > > Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to > a

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Dan Purgert (HE12025-07-20): > And it'd break signatures for those of us who use them. I *hated* yahoo > groups (and, now, groups.io) for doing that. Can you explain what it means? I am subscribed to and I do not observe anything that looks like breaki

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

On Jul 20, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > > the mailing list messages, something like > > > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 05:48:01PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Perhaps, the List Administrators could find worthwhile, to add a footer to > the mailing list messages, something like > > "To unsubscribe, change your subscription mode, or view the list archive, > see https://lists.debian.org/deb

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On 20/7/25 17:37, Thomas Southerland wrote: On 7/20/25 5:21 AM, Mathew Alexander wrote: Mathew Alexander mat...@gmail.com WebRep Overall rating WebRep Overall rating To unsubscribe from this list, send "unsubscribe" in the message subject to: -requ...@lists.debian.org and you will

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On 7/20/25 5:21 AM, Mathew Alexander wrote: Mathew Alexander mat...@gmail.com WebRep Overall rating WebRep Overall rating To unsubscribe from this list, send "unsubscribe" in the message subject to: -requ...@lists.debian.org and you will be removed after your confirmation reply h

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