* Michael Kallas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This has been considered illegal by the Landgericht Berlin: > > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list > > Mailman-Users > > > > We have received a request from [IP address] for subscription of your > > email address, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to the > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. > [...] > This court decided (search Google for "16 O 515/02") that it is considered > to be "unwanted advertisement" (UCE, SPAM) if a businessman gets a mail > in which he is asked whether he wants to be subscribed to a newsletter. > It would be the task of the newsletter administrator to prove that the > other person really _wanted_ to subscribe. > Similar rights could be used for private persons, so this affects indeed all > mailing lists / newsletters.
So turn off the confirmation so you assume if the user clicks the subscribe, they _want_ to be subscribed. ---------------------------------------------- | Matthew Davis /\ http://dogpound.vnet.net/ | |--------------------------------------------| | Friday, December 06, 2002 / 12:09PM | ---------------------------------------------- Futuristic: It only runs on the next-generation supercomputer. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
