Re:Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law
by martincmartin on Sunday September 09, 2012 @04:55PM
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Sending a reply email message can still work just fine. Assuming they include the original message in their reply, you just need to embed an ID in the original message, and look them up through that.
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Re:Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law
by brey on Sunday September 09, 2012 @05:48PM
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in which case you've invested the effort in making the stateful one-time token for unsubscription (is that a word?) - it's EASIER to enact that via a web link than parsing response emails
Re:Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law
by akldfgj on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:16AM
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It's only easier if the recipient is web browsing, and wants to risk getting cookies and malware from a known-malicious entity...
Re:Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law
by brey on Monday September 10, 2012 @05:59AM
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if it's a known malicious entity I don't think I'd want to confirm that my email address is 'live' either way ...
the majority use case here is that they're not malicious, merely spammy with good intentions.