On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:00:44PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > TVD> - Include clear information about why the person is receiving the > TVD> newsletter and how to change their preferences. > > SA will flag some of these as "excuses". Many people will disbelieve > them anyway.
Yeah, I figure there may be a way to state it without flagging a rule though. Of course, whatever I came up with would then probably be a good rule to add. Hmmm. > Basically, if you do any quantity of bulk mail, some (possibly > significant) subset of the world will consider you to be a spammer no > matter what you do, unless you're 100% *confirmed* opt-in with all > records to prove it. Yeah, I know there is no 100% guaranteed way. My goal is just to make that subset of the world as small as possible. ;) I feel kind of sleezy trying to avoid SA rules just as an activity, but I guess it does lower the overall FP rates. ;) Another thing to make that subset smaller is double opt-in (ie: verify the initial opt-in). We're actually not doing that yet, although I hear it's on the board for next year. (so someone could, sign up for an account with someone else's email address and then sign up for newsletters, but ...) At least that way when someone complains it would be easier to say "but you said you wanted this thing twice!"... -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "/tmp needs to be world-writeable, period. But very few things (nothing?) legitimately need to readdir(/tmp). Except users. But, well, screw them <verybiggrin>." - Hank Leininger
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