On 15 Nov 98, at 11:12, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
> imagine my surprise when this mail arrived in my box this morning -- i
> just resubbed. downside of anonymous web forms??
Yeah, no one should be able to subscribe or unsubscribe from a
webform.
I just had a little battle over this. I had to write my own little
subscription system. The marketing team (MT) thought many people
would find it difficult to understand the message sent by majordomo
about verifying a subscription request. The MT wished that a person
need only reply; just reply. So I stuck an identifier with the
person's email, as given on the web form, on the bottom of the email
sent to them asking them to "just reply". A few people have replied
as if they were talking to a human (and they deleted the original
message so I had to subscribe manually). So far about 1 in 4 people
"just reply". Perhaps even that is asking too much.
But I think unsubscribe and subscribe can be initiated on a webform
but it should only be implemented after email validation.
Peter
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