On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Simon Waters wrote: > However nothing I found that was recent was compelling that CC are doing > anything but legitimate email marketing. They clearly did have some issues a > few years back, but can anyone point to incoming spam.
No, only because I've had them blocked for going on 4 years. However, a quick check of my logs for this week shows they still tried to deliver 336 message here. (Use a round number of 2,000 for our user base). Scanning the list I can see accounts I know were removed years ago, so either they don't care if mail keeps bouncing, or they have no problem importing old e-mail lists. At least 50 are to non-existant addresses. That's 15% that I know for sure didn't opt-in. Remember that their policy is if someone subscribes you against your wishes, you have to opt out, it's not "do nothing and you won't be added", against all current best practices. Perhaps this needs repeating. If someone subscribes you to a list against your wishes, you have to take action to get off the list. If you think this isn't a big deal, what do you think happens one day when someone subscribes you to 100 -- or 1000 -- such lists as a prank, or revenge ? This used to happen all the time, until 99% of all lists when to confirmed opt in (or what they call double opt-in to make it seem difficult). The correct, industry standard practice is to take an address on a web form, then send a tagged mail to that address and require that person to take a positive action before they are on the list. This can be reply to the message, or click a specific link in the mail. Either way, it is impossible to be subscribed against your will. I would refer you again to the link I posted yesterday. Granted it's from 2 years ago, but the company has not changed it's policy since then, and frankly a large chunk of people gave up after that, firewalled them off, and haven't given them a second thought. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
