Since I'm leaving my current gig, I'm starting to unsubscribe from all the various mailing lists I'm a part of. This will should make the person who inherits my email address life easier.
I decided awhile ago to only pick up RSS feeds in Google Reader and to no longer subscribe to email lists. Email is for personal communication only. There are a few exceptions (like SAGE). Otherwise, the stuff I'm still subscribed to is left over from before I started using Google Reader.
Most of the mailing lists I subscribe to have List-Unsubscribe headers. That means I only have to view source on mailing list messages to find out how to unsubscribe.
I wish more mail clients supported using these headers. Hotmail sort of has it (but I never really got it working as a sender, so I don't trust it. I also don't use hotmail). You'd think it would be relatively easy to add to Gmail or Mail.app. I'm not the only one to consider it, either.
Google even recommends adding the header:
Provide a 'List-Unsubscribe' header which points to a web form where the user can unsubscribe easily from future mailings (Note: This is not a substitute method for unsubscribing).I guess I'll be copying and pasting for a bit.
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