At 10:45 PM -0500 3/16/03, Chris Lewis wrote:
Rodney's list immediately showed why no-one will ever accept a
global opt-out list: within a week, domains comprising on the order
of 60 million email address had opted out.
Actually opted out, or had someone wrote a program to do it?
Massachusetts has a new opt-out web interface for phone spam. It
verifies the phone number using your address. Writing software to
opt-out virtually everyone in the state would not be that hard.
Unfortunately (or not) it turns out that opt-out lists have the same
problem as email in general. No authentication.
I assume that's why opting out of phone spam (the marketing opt-out
list, not the one the feds are setting up) is free if you send them a
letter, but costs $5 if you do it on-line. Authentication by level
of effort. Although the claim is that the $5 is to cover costs.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
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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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