On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:39:44PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Uhem, I *know* you know better and just fat-fingered this one. What > you describe is not "confirmed opt-in". You just described the > "Opt-In" of the first one again. There is no confirmation step in
See, you missed the point of my post completely which is: technical people
and marketing people have different terminology. The "confirmed" part is
that they send you a mail confirming they've added you to their list.
The first one ("opt-in"), is when they add you to the list without
sending you a mail telling you they've done so.
> your description. If I were subscribed that way I would have to
> opt-out to get off of the list?
Yes. Marketing people got request for address to be added, they add it,
send address a note saying they've been added (again, they call this
"confirmed opt-in", as they confirm the opt-in took place.) To get off
the list, you'd have to go opt-out, even if you didn't send the request
in the first place. The "confirmation" doesn't mean they've proved that
the owner of the address wants to be opted in -- it just means that they
confirm adding the address to their list.
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