| | It's on the list :) | | Why didn't it get done for this launch? Mostly because it's hooked into | a much bigger legacy Perl system that we've used for many years to | capture user information and process it through log files and back into | mailing lists etc. We have a lot of CGI scripts so it would be quit a | bit of work to rewrite them all - with all their back end machinery - | in ColdFusion. We'll probably get to it in time. |
This must be the code that places people on Macromedia mailing lists when they do not intend to be suscribing. Part of the result is that Macromedia ends up on e-mail blacklists because a few of these "subscribers" feel that the marketing email they receive is unsolicited, and thus is reported as spam. I hope that added to the list of fixes will be a double opt-in method of confirming subscriptions before adding them to the marketing database. This in keeping with best practices for mail list management encouraged by those of us who use spammer blacklists as filters on our own mail servers. This is an item that would remove the "black-eye" that Macromedia has concerning marketing emails, and permit those of us that do filter, to continue to receive mail that we have subscribed to intentionally. Requiring an email address in order to navigate your site, and then auto-adding that email address to marketing email lists is not a good practice, and labels the mailer as a spammer. Macromedia has three mail servers that have a blacklist history on the spamcop blacklist, which is increasingly being used at the ISP level to block unsolicited commercial email (UCE). To guarantee a listing on the black list, all a visitor has to do is to visit your web site, enter an email address set up specifically as a spam trap address, and then start receiving email to that address. The mail is then reported to Spamcop, where the spam score is weighted by mail to special trap addresses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
