On 04 Apr 2003 13:56:37 -0500
Jeff Macdonald <jeff(_dot_)macdonald(_at_)e-dialog(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 04:00, Kee Hinckley wrote:
Also, as has been pointed out to me offlist. Average users have
serious problems with the whole email confirmation process.
Where is the data to support this claim?
I serve a moderately technical audience with my lists (primarily
internet game designers and developers). From that population roughly
15% of attempted subscriptions never confirm. I haven't done any
followup to find out why, but I did pick a random 20 to verify that
their attempted subscription domains did match the IP from which they
attempted to subscribe (no exceptions).
But given a URL you get a chance to hold their hand.
How is text that is on a web page any different then text in a email
message?
I just don't get it.
You need to drink a lot of Michelob Lite first, perhaps for a few years,
and then attempt to view your computer, and thus your email, just like
the VCR you've never figured out how to set the time on. I find that a
large percentage (majority?) of the great unwashed consider email to be
an actively hostile and foreign environment, with the web being
naturally more friendly and comforting, if only because it is more
TV-like.
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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