[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Fred Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about some form of automated(?) sequence where:
New subscriber submits subscription request.
System sends "query" message to subscriber address.
New subscriber sends "confirmation" message within reasonable time
period.
List access granted on receipt of confirmation.
At least the damn spammer would have to do a little work to be a bottom
feeder. Too bad there must be an endless number of idiots out there (P
T Barnum postulation) or the problem would self regulate.
Such a system is already in place. Please recall when you
signed up that you got a confirmation message that you had
to reply to before you were added to the mailing list.
And yet somehow, the spammer still managed to get signed up
using a "paypal.com" address. How did they do that?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] at least does have an auto-responder. The message
contains the text of any message sent to it, appended to the bottom of
the email. That would serve to automatically validate the check email.
You might want to consider reworking the check mechanism, using the
capture mechanism that a lot of web forums and blogs use. Users must
type in text presented on a web page in the form of a graphic. That
will put a stop to the automated signup pretty quickly.
Clay
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