In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John R Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is also the issue of moving an extant list - if you claim the list is
>> pre-existing and that you are moving it, you would be expecting to add a
>> large number of subscribers just as soon as you crank up. It is also
>> likely that you would not be expecting to force each subscriber to
>> re-confirm.
>
>This doesn't impress me as an intractable problem. When someone wants to
>move a list, accept the list, pick out some moderate number of addresses at
>random, say 50, and send each of them a message like "You're receiving this
>message because you're on the EPIGLOTTIS-LOVERS mailing list that has
>recently been moved to OffTopica.com, and we're spot checking the contents of
>the list. If you are a member of the list and wish to continue to be on the
>list click HERE, if you are a member but no longer wish to be on the list
>click HERE, or if you are not a member of the list click HERE."
>
>If you get back a significant number of "not on the list" responses, you
>know it's dodgy.
Yep.
This is _exactly_ what I proposed to the folks at egoups/onelist.
No word yet if they have implemented it or not.
Unfortunately, my general impression is that with a lot of companies in
that are in the Internet game these days, unless an idea can be translated
directly into an obvious increase in bottom-line dollars, they will refuse
to take the time to do it.
What that means is that in the case of these ``professional'' (and I use
the word loosely) list management companies, they are effectively declaring
the problem of spammers who abuse them and get them to do their spamming for
them to be sombody else's problem.
