Dnia 26.06.2025 o godz. 08:37:03 Bill Cole via mailop pisze: > Collecting email addresses on paper is worthless. You might as well > generate the addresses randomly. [...] > Those addresses are USELESS. Doing anything with them puts you at > reputational risk. Your customer needs to redesign their processes.
I think these are huge overstatements. Signing up to newsletters or online services is not the only case when someone collects your email address, and noyt everything in life is performed online. Collecting e-mail addresses on paper is quite a common practice. Myself I have been asked multiple times to write my e-mail address into a paper application. The paper application is a part of totally different process, it may be setting up a bank account, buying an insurance policy, requesting some form of social welfare support from the government, or even tax settlement. Collecting e-mail address is not a main objective of this process - the process will continue anyway if you don't supply any address at all - but the email is used as additional information that makes easier contacting you by the institution in question (bank, insurance company, government office) in case it's needed. As the whole process is designed to be performed on paper (often it's required by law), it's obvious that the email will be collected on paper as well, along with all other needed data. There is no way to verify the email at the time of the collection, as you suggest. That's a totally normal and valid case. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [email protected] -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
