Steven Massey schrieb: > Thanks for the response. I would tend to agree with you, but this > client is particularly insistent on setting it up this way.
Did you counsel him and explain to him, *why* that is a really *very* bad idea? > Perhaps > people on the list could help me by providing some fodder to argue why > there should be a confirmation e-mail. Because otherwise anyone can subscribe anyone else (and this *will* be done, sooner or later, if only to aggravate the people being subscribed), and your client and/or you will get blamed for that ("You are sending me unsolicited mail! I did not order your newsmetter/mailing list/whatever!!!!11"). > I've tried saying that people > could be maliciously signed up for a list they never wanted to be on, > but they don't seem to think that is really an issue. It is. Be sure. -thh ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/