>[1] Topica needs to provide a means for list owners to make
>*legitimate* additions to their mailing lists --
>[1] Topica needs to provide a means for list owners to make
>*legitimate* additions to their mailing lists --
Hmm, this is admittedly a tricky issue, and there is no sent from
God absolute right solution for every circumstance. That said,
I'd have to say that it's my belief that giving large groups of
users the unsupervised ability to bulk add addresses to their
lists is begging for just the kind of reputation crushing
controversy we are seeing develop here.
Vince is an experienced responsible Internet citizen and all
round good guy so if he was hosted on my server I'd have no
trouble accepting his definition of *legitimate* additions.
That said, Vince you gotta admit there are as many different
definitions of "legitimate additions" out there as there are list
owners.
I know the folks at Topica and they aren't spammers, they are
simply trying to be helpful to legitimate list owners by offering
the unsupervised bulk add feature. The problem with these good
intentions is that they will certainly be abused and thus the
reputations of all the truly legitimate list owners at Topica
will be adversely affected.
The thread that is developing here, regardless of its exact
merits, is evidence enough of that.
Phil
