On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:29:00PM +0300, Gadi Evron wrote: > Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > The serious part: > > > > Wording: the proper term is "confirmed opt-in" -- that is, a confirmation > > step is used in order to make sure that the person claiming that they want > > to subscribe is the only person authorized to make such claims, i.e., the > > owner of the email address in play. "double opt-in" is spammer-speak, > > and it's a nonsense phrase besides: there's nothing being done twice. > > It was coined by spammers (who have also used "triple opt-in" and even > > "quadruple opt-in") in order to obfuscate their tactics. > > But it's clearer?
Your comment certainly isn't clear to me: I don't know what the "it" you're referring to is. ;-) But (if I can guess what you're asking me) the acronym COI (confirmed opt-in) has been in fairly common use for quite some time. That same acronym has also been expanded to "closed-loop opt-in", which carries the same meaning and indicates that affirmitive consent has been secured directly from the owner of the email address(es) in question. Among spammers/marketroids, "double opt-in" often means "entered the same email address twice in the same form" which of course provides no confirmation of any kind whatsoever. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
