Hi, On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:00:44PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > 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. ;) In the long term, it won't matter since the SA rules will adapt to match current spammer behavior. spammers will adapt to changes in SA, and the cycle of life will continue... > 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!"... More importantly, vandals can't forge-subscribe people to your list in order to listbomb them. There are whole blacklists dedicated to abusable mailing lists, so it's in your organization's best interest to move to 'confirmed opt-in' (or in greasy DMA-speak, 'double opt-in') as soon as reasonably achievable. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
