Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddresses Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddresses?atomcommentsDWiki2009-08-13T03:13:56ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddresses.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddressestag:CSpace:blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddresses:694b31ed5aa324dcc31deac02b21ab2a136c3eebChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Whoops, in retrospect I see that I was really unclear in my entry. The
simple answer is that I wasn't talking about registration confirmation
emails, but about all of the other sorts of automatically sent emails
that people think are a good idea. For example, 'enter someone's email
address here to have us email them marketing materials', or 'invite your
friend (just give us their email address)', or the like.</p>
<p>The bad thing is emailing random person B on person A's say-so, and
registration email is at least theoretically not this. One might argue
that 'email me information about your company' is not either, but it
doesn't work that way in practice.</p>
</div>2009-08-13T03:13:56ZFrom 195.26.247.140 on /blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddressestag:CSpace:blog/spam/AutosendExcludeAddresses:11b4a1eadf9ea2f47192fac6101837c577e7f2afFrom 195.26.247.140<div class="wikitext"><p>What about sending registration emails? The user has to put in an email address there, and this is the first contact you have with them. Of course, if it gets ignored then they get removed from any future mailings (their registration is unconfirmed and so invalid for sending them more emails), but the first mail needs to be sent for them to be able to confirm the address is valid and what they wanted. (it's removed after a number of days of unconfirmedness)</p>
<p>What alternatives to email exist for this kind of registration-confirmation?</p>
</div>2009-08-12T09:30:42Z