On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:31:49PM -0500, Kee Hinckley wrote
At 10:36 PM -0500 3/30/03, waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org wrote:
And if e-marketers adopted *OPT-IN*, we wouldn't have today's problems.
How do you define opt-in? Paper mail, fax, phone, web-site, email
message or any of the above with confirmation via any of the above?
For a mailing-list, email seems logical...
- Original contact by would-be subscriber via email or web-form
- List-owner sends confirmation request via e-mail stating which list
is being checked for subscription confirmation. Should include a
random-string/key/token which would not be guessable. Date-time
and IP address of the original request would also be nice.
- The would-be subscriber replies, including token. (Would MS Outlook
"out-of-office" messages auto-confirm you?)
I can tell when a marketer writes a column about opt-in; he does one
short paragraph about confirmed opt-in (see above) and then spends the
rest of a long article tap-dancing to find ways to extend the definition
to include sending stuff to people who didn't ask for it.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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