Ronald wrote:
>
> Any six-year old kid of average intelligence can figure out (or be taught)
> how to relay to an e-mail message.
Whether or not it is "easy" enough to reply by email to a confirmation
request is now a moot question.
This is because the same folks who have trouble composing and sending
a proper email confirmation reply generally now have html-enabled
mail readers. All that need to be done to request a confirm is to include
something like:
<a href="put confirm cgi-url here">Click here to activiate subscription</a>
in the list's email response to the subscription request. The confirm
cgi url should contain all the info needed to process the confirmation
(cookies, etc) so the prospective list member need make one click to
confirm, no filling out forms, no nothing other than one click. If
they can't even READ the email -- then there really IS no reason to
have them on the mailing list in the first place.
"One Click Confirmation" No excuses anymore.
Even I, a non-programmer, was able to write a cgi that would generate
a proper confirm email and get it to the right place.
--
Michelle Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] East Palo Alto, CA
