You may recall several months ago there was a discussion regarding "invitations" from a member of a website/service sent by the service on behalf of one of its users. A lot of debate ensued and I tried to determine how best to approach it given a situation where it was the only viable option given certain circumstances.
Somebody guessed correctly... the company I'm working with is bringing e-mail to inmates. Now that we're online and have the system up and running at a jail I can actually talk about it. In relation to the previous discussion, inmates have the option to invite their friends and family to connect with them by entering their e-mail address. The system then sends a rather generic e-mail letting the recipient know that "inmate name" at "jail name" is inviting them to connect on our service. Inmates are limited to sending to five e-mail addresses per day, and each e-mail address can only be send an invitation once every 12 hours. Invitations are never sent automatically (i.e. the inmate has to click the "send" button for the e-mail to go out). The e-mail also includes links to block requests from that inmate or to block all invitation requests to the system. Given the limited information I could provide initially, someone guessed that it could be in a jail environment, so kudos to whoever that was. <g> So far the system has opened to good feedback from the inmates and their families. If anyone has suggestions on improving the invitation process or anything else I'm all ears. For anyone interested, the website is at www.smartjailmail.com. -Justin Scott _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
