At 9:28 PM -0400 5/3/03, Eric D. Williams wrote:
I mean, I buy a movie ticket and check the box that says send confirmation in
eMail. Or, I go to a rental car web site and reserve a car and the 'system'
states a confirmation of my reservation information has been sent via eMail.
That kinda thing. I am not sure which of those situations is closer to what
you are talking about. If you are getting Alamo confirmations that
sounds like
a flaw in their system and not in the general Internet system for messaging.
BTW, what do you call that type of message - a misdirected message or a
message caused by misconfiguration?
Well, the cause is clear enough. Someone lied to them about their
email address. My main point is that people are using non-confirmed
email (opt-out) for transactional email. That's incredibly
stupid--but true. So long as people believe that an email address
entered on a form is "opt-in", that kind of thing will continue.
Unfortunately that is in fact how most of the email subscriptions in
the world work.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.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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