[HumanSer] Malicious removal

[David Andrews]

Doug, that is exactly what happens!

People should always trim reply messages, which I am about to do!

Dave

At 08:38 PM 7/12/2020, Doug Lee via HumanSer wrote:
>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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