[HumanSer] Malicious removal

[Doug Lee]

Mary, in case it comforts you, I had a few incidents of this over the years myself. I think the most common scenario works like this:

1. You read a message from the list. The message will end with a footer taylored for you that includes a list removal link for you specifically.

2. You reply to the message. The mail client you use includes a quoted copy of what you are answering, and also a copy of the footer you received below that.

3. Your message goes out to everyone on the list, and each recipient gets a message footer taylored to that person that includes a list removal link for that recipient. Your own footer, with its removal link, will remain
above that footer as part of what you sent.

4. Someone decides to leave the list and goes to click an Unsubscribe link from the footer of a message.

5. Unfortunately for you, the message footer chosen just happens to be the footer of the message you sent, which includes a link for removing you specifically from the list. Below that, the person's own link should appear.

To all listers: This is a good reason to snip off the sometimes extensive collection of footers that can start piling up at the ends of messages in lengthy discussion threads, on this and many other mailing lists.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 07:51:31PM -0500, David Andrews via HumanSer wrote:
Sometimes these messages are triggered by accident. Just ignore it -- the
request expires.

Dave

At 07:13 PM 7/12/2020, you wrote:
> I do not desire to be removed from this list and am uncertain how a request
> for removal was submitted.
> 
> Mary Tatum Chappell


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