{"items": [{"author": "Paul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168424199973434", "anchor": "fb-168424199973434", "service": "fb", "text": "There are mailing lists that continue to send me things I receive and ignore because the \"unsubscribe\" link brings me to a page that requires information. I should not have to give anyone my phone number or other such info in order to get them to drop me from their mailing list.", "timestamp": "1361368502"}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168440479971806", "anchor": "fb-168440479971806", "service": "fb", "text": "I mostly agree, but I think you should have to click exactly one button (after clicking the link in the email) to unsubscribe. It should not be possible to change anything via HTTP GET, only POST. There are a number of ways I could be fooled into clicking a link, but it's (hopefully) much harder to fool me into successfully POSTing data to a form that correctly protects against CSRF. See also http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.1.1.", "timestamp": "1361372968"}, {"author": "Nicolas", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168454869970367", "anchor": "fb-168454869970367", "service": "fb", "text": "I assume most places make it difficult because they don't want to lose you as a subscriber - not so much so that they can send you stuff, but so that they can include you in their subscriber counts for various fundraising and advertising purposes.", "timestamp": "1361376818"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1361387491275", "service": "gp", "text": "If it's harder than one click (from the webpage), then I click \"report spam\".", "timestamp": 1361387491}, {"author": "Kelly", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168497786632742", "anchor": "fb-168497786632742", "service": "fb", "text": "I am theorizing a future email system, where everyone receives all possible emails (or rather logs in to an email service which contains all emails), and their 'inbox' is really just a set of filters for things they find interesting or relevant. In this system:
sending an email does not require a recipient, receiving email is about setting filters for what you would like.
The problem: how would you receive an unsolicited email from someone, in the case that you would actually want to receive it? How do they solve this problem in whitelist only schemes?", "timestamp": "1361389655"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168498049966049", "anchor": "fb-168498049966049", "service": "fb", "text": "@Kelly: you could start out with a filter for \"allow all email addressed directly to me by individuals\" and then have additional filters tweaking that.", "timestamp": "1361389769"}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168498389966015", "anchor": "fb-168498389966015", "service": "fb", "text": "Kelly, how is that different than the combination of selectively polling RSS/Atom and filtering inbound email?", "timestamp": "1361389885"}, {"author": "Kelly", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/168419566640564?comment_id=168499673299220", "anchor": "fb-168499673299220", "service": "fb", "text": "so I am really just trying to eliminate email addresses all together (so, I suppose logging in to an email service would be counterproductive to this, the idea is that you don't need to log in. The email service idea is similar to usenet, everyone gets the same usenet, the service is to provide it). The difference between RSS is that by default you get _EVERY_EMAIL_SENT_ON_THE_INTERNET_. Of course, this is completely aprivate and asecure ( public key crypto could be built on top of this, if you really want security, or you could just use something else.)", "timestamp": "1361390326"}]}