On Friday 06 December 2002 12:10 pm, Matthew Davis wrote: > * 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.
So, how do you then prove that it was them and not someone else? -- "Suppose you were an idiot . . . . And suppose you were a member of Congress . . . . but I repeat myself."...Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
