On Fri, 5 May 2000, murr rhame wrote:
> I will not allow anyone to use my mailing lists as a vengeance
> weapon. In my humble opinion, running a mailing list with open
> subscriptions and no confirmations is inexcusable. This is not a
> new problem. I'm quite surprised that a veteran list admin
> hasn't taken measures to prevent malicious subscriptions.
Follow Chuq's earlier points in this space. It is his experience that
confirmation, even easy methods, are confusing to most new netters, and
they simply up and leave. For him, that's a much more severe problem than
the occasional attack. For me right now, I use confirmation, but I also
know that 25% or more of my potential subscribers give up either when they
can't get confirmation right the first time or when asked for it at all.
It's a web world -- people expect to click once and get what they're
looking for, not a body cavity search.
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