The Spam-L mailing list is a good example of the List-Unsubscribe (and other RFC 2369 headers) in use for a discussion style mailing list.
From: LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: SPAM-L Digest - 26 Aug 2006 to 27 Aug 2006 (#2006-245)
Date: August 27, 2006 10:00:19 PM CDT
To: SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Reply-To: SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Return-Path: <owner-SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Domainkey-Signature: q=dns; d=EASE.LSOFT.COM; s=BETA1; c=nofws; h=Date:Reply-To:Sender:From:Subject:To:Message-ID:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Owner:List-Archive; b=aetHboV7ctf903C4WKjpd4pfNe9PUOmErrfCwktSe7fdrc4c7H4FpGSSF2YUfYoeUEoHRxznKMia5rHTJL2Pah0t6WTCPirnyhzA3rJUz2ZxJH++Y75owoqrK4nzSM8D;
Sender: Spam Prevention Discussion List <SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Message-Id: <SPAM-L%200608272300194450.0139@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Precedence: list
List-Help: <http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=SPAM-L>, <mailto:LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM?body=INFO SPAM-L>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:SPAM-L-unsubscribe-request@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:SPAM-L-subscribe-request@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
List-Owner: <mailto:SPAM-L-request@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
List-Archive: <http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=SPAM-L>
This implementation would be better if it utilized VERP to make the List-Unsubscribe URL one-click and foolproof.
good work...
Posted by: Josh | June 03, 2007 at 09:03 AM