>From Chip Rosenthal:
>
> I would strongly advocate that everybody who has a web-based
> list signup form TURN IT OFF NOW!
>
> A web-based form ensures that the most incompetent members of the
> Internet have access to your list. Personally, I *demand* that
> all my list members have a minimum level of proficiency in email
> before they are welcome. Unlesss they do, there is no way they
> can be a useful contributor to the list, and a high probability
> they will be a problem. This isn't some pissy elitist club attitude.
> If they aren't skilled in email, they simply aren't ready to
> participate.
My recent experience tends to confirm this. People were entering
their own addresses, only with lots of typos; they were entering
other addresses, without the owner's permission; and there were a
lot of situations where the address they entered worked but
differed enough from the address on their mailer that
restrict_post and unsubscribe didn't work.
<SIGH>
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Regards,
Merrill Cook
Louisville KY
mcook@pcusa.org or MERRILL COOK on Ecunet/PresbyNet
http://www.pcusa.org/pcusa.html
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