On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, murr rhame wrote:
> Broadly I agree that you shouldn't compel every list admin to
> use the same set of rules...
I don't imagine that anyone was saying otherwise.
> What sorts of situations would be appropriate for unconfirmed
> subscriptions?
Within an email structure where you can trust that there is no forgery.
Typically that will only be mail from within an organization.B
In fact, we do it all the time when whe don't use MLMs. Various people
say that they would like to be cc'ed on some discussion, and we go ahead
and do it without confirmation.
> I'm looking for a rehash of the whole debate on why confirmed
> subscribes should or should not be. I'd just like to know what
> situations folks find acceptable for not using confirmations.
Confirmation is not required where:
(1) You can trust every subscription request, and your users trust you
not to add people who don't wish to be added.
OR
(2) People have no choice anyway (as in your example which I snipped)
Maybe there is another class of circumstances that I've missed.
-j
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