** Sometime around 17:09 -0500 02/23/99, Nick Simicich said:
>At 09:00 AM 2/23/99 -0500, Vince Sabio is said to have written:
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>In the recent past, I've referred to a new freebie list-hosting service
>>that will be coming on line "soon." Well, soon is now -- Topica has
>>unveiled its "Preview Release" today.
>
>Yeah, and I've already been spammed by them once. :-)
>
>(When someone uses their interface to subscribe to a list you have, they
>send mail to the -owner address asking if they can archive the list. They
>also allow you to opt out. I did neither.)
That's not spam -- that's a request to archive your mailing list. And
though I haven't seen the exact message, we had discussed this issue at
length within Topica: The message you receive should very specifically
*NOT* be "opt out," it should be "opt in."
That is, if you do nothing, your mailing list will NOT be archived. Also,
you should not receive that message more than once for any given mailing
list -- so, if you do not opt in for a particular mailing list, and three
more of your subscribers decide to sign up to the list via Topica, you
should not receive three more copies of that request message.
BTW, the purpose in sending you that message is to allow the subscribers
who join via Topica to read the list messages via the Web. Since joining
a "non-hosted" list via Topica is necessarily conducted via the Web, the
assumption is made that the person *might* also want to read the list via
the Web.
It is an optional service to which you can opt in, and it has been designed
specifically as an "opt in" and in such a manner that you should receive
only one of those messages for each mailing list, and even then only if
someone joins that list via the Topica web page.
Hope this makes sense. :-)
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