Re: [Asrg] BATV and mailing lists

[Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net>]

 On 18 Mar 2005 01:57:11 -0000, John Levine wrote:
>  I suppose you could encode the list name into the
>
>  address and a checksum to save the effort of remembering what lists
>  you've subscribed to, but in practice I suspect that it makes more
>  sense for the MUA to remember the lists and addresses along with other
>  info like how to unsubscribe.

the purpose of batv is to record some state into the return address, so the origination site does not have to maintain a list of sent messages.

the purpose of the current proposal is the same thing, albeit for a different bit of state, namely providing a means by which the mailing list can 'prove' that the addressee did subscribe.

so it seems a reasonable idea, although the fact that it requires changing mailing lists (to accept a From field that differs from the subscription address) is a non-trivial hurdle.


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