At 12:01 AM -0700 3/29/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)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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