Re: Blacklisted: TOPICA.COM

[Mitch Collinsworth]

>Shortly after I started sending jokes to her list, I got several tear 
>jerking letters about how "I've been trying to unsubscribe for two 
>years, and I can't do it!  PLEASE HELP ME!!!"  One person swore 
>they had never subscribed.  (Note.... the list server I use only 
>subscribes the senders address.  While it doesn't confirm 
>subscriptions {the next version will do that}, you can't subscribe 
>someone else, unless you can forge their address.)

I hope you aren't assuming that therefore this person is just a stupid
liar.  I have seen cases where domains, particularly schools, create
accounts, say for a class, and just recycle them from one generation
of the class to the next.  Hence the address stays the same, while the
current users of it come and go.  One user signs up to a list, leaves,
new user gets assigned existing account, and "Hey, why am I getting
all this mail?  I didn't ask for this."

-Mitch