Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:28:22 -0000 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Diane Bruce <db@heceta.db.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you for opting-in Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031006075024.04ec1ea0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20031219205028.GA68966@heceta.db.net> References: <B0009789539@icem3.worldatamail.com> <3FE34F3F.1050908@401.cx> <3FE35045.3020201@potentialtech.com> <20031219205028.GA68966@heceta.db.net>
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At 02:50 PM 12/19/2003, Diane Bruce wrote: >It still amazes me that there are still sites around that opt in >without email confirmation from the "victim." Thousands. Paul Vixie's MAPS has a whole DNS blacklist devoted to them. They call them "NMLs" -- nonconforming (or, as some people expand the acronym, nonconfirming) mailing lists. I used to write for a magazine which had online newsletters and refused to do confirmation. Their marketroids had decreed that this not be done because "it might reduce the number of subscribers." Their advertising rates went by the number of subscribers, so they refused to consider the notion that an unwilling subscriber was worse than one less. --Brett Glass
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