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"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 24 July 2018 04:13 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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In article <5b56a4ba.1c69fb81.836c0.d955@mx.google.com> you write:

>> Plan B: figure out how to make your URLs short enough that your List-Unsubscribe
>headers are under 998 characters. ...

>Plan B is only feasible if the same person provides the URL _and_ writes the code to generate the
>List-Unsubscribe header field (or any other list header field) for the corresponding message; not so if a
>software library generates a message containing the value of a List-Unsubscribe (or other) header field
>provided by a (third-party) user that, while otherwise syntactically valid, could exceed 998 characters in
>length. ....

You lost me here.  Is there some force that requires you to pass giant
URLs to List-Unsubscribe?  If you want to interoperate, use reasonably
short URLs.  This should not be rocket science.

R's,
John

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