Re: Opt-In (Was Re: [Asrg] Proposal for Opt-Out)

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>]

At 12:01 AM -0700 3/29/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>  > From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
>
> >  ...
> >  4. If User does not not confirm by either replying (From/Reply-To) or
> >  clicking on the confirmation url....
> Clicking on confirmation URLs turns out to be a bad idea.  Anything
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.  I agree that the email reply 
offers more proof.  But then again, I've seen one confirmed-opt-in 
system treated a *bounce* as confirmation (hey, the subject matched 
:-).  And then of course, there's Microsoft's vacation messages, 
which go to the wrong address.  And our challenge/response friend 
from yesterday would apparently have automatically confirmed any list 
anyone sent him a confirmation for.

Also, as has been pointed out to me offlist.  Average users have 
serious problems with the whole email confirmation process.  But 
given a URL you get a chance to hold their hand.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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