At 8:39 AM -0500 4/11/03, Brad Spencer wrote:
Simple opt-in isn't the problem. It's fake opt-in that's the
problem, and simple opt-in can be easily faked. If the operator of
the list is honest then that operator doesn't want to send to
unwilling recipients and will use
Not 100% the case. There is a significant problem from people
entering false email addresses to avoid spam. I think this is why so
many web sites are "syntax checking" (incorrectly of course) email
addresses, and requiring people to type them twice. They seem to
think these bouncing (or misdirected) email addresses are accidents.
They aren't. They are deliberate.
Admittedly I see this problem more than most because of my domain
name, but I know that people are using "fake" addresses regularly.
What about this kind of deception: for www.gabesgab.org there's no
DNS for gabesgab.org but there is (or was yesterday) an entry for
www.gabesgab.org?
What's wrong with that? (Or do you mean something other than, "there
was no A record")?
--
Kee Hinckley
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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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