> On 25 Sep 2015, at 01:01, Michael Peddemors <mich...@linuxmagic.com> wrote: > > On 15-09-24 04:49 PM, Hal Murray wrote: >> How many of the bulk mail senders would cooperate? Would they be willing to >> switch all their customers to real opt-in? > > Called 'confirmed double opt-in', and I think everyone wishes they would :) > Also very interesting studies on conversion rates for confirmed double opt-in > vs single opt-in. > > And amazing how many people still like to sign up other ppls' email addresses > ( like fake ordering pizzas ) as a lark..
I’ve run community events where we’ve gathered several dozen email addresses, on paper forms, for the explicit purpose of contacting those people later. I tried adding them to a mailing list, that week, with confirmed opt-in, and about 10% of people responded to the email asking them to confirm the opt in. So, I abandoned that approach, and signed them up to a email list (Google Groups), without confirmation. I got no complaints. So, while confirmed double opt-in is essential for online signups, I don’t think it’s essential or even desirable for face to face sign-ups. The problem is that it’s really hard for a mailing list system to tell the difference. -- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
