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[SC-Help] Re: Getting balcklisted

Iain ipmarketing at spamcop.net
Wed Jan 12 16:44:03 EST 2005


That is a very good idea - and one I've seen before - but an excellent idea. 
Thanks for it :-)


"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:cs3jh1$ogs$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> You email the address a confirmation.  In order to get any more
>> information from you, the recipient of the email has to confirm that
>> they received the email you sent and that they indeed /do/ want to get
>> more mail from you regarding the issue in question.  That confirmatory
>> mail contains some way to indicate its uniqueness.
>
> In addition, that confirmatory mail can name the IP address of the
> browser entrant of the email address which you have mailed the
> confirmation item.  The datestamp as well if you like.  That way if
> someone is going around causing trouble by entering bogus or spamtrap
> information, they may get nabbed by the person bogus subscribed
> notifying the provider for the IP address.
>
> Ratting out the bogus subscribers to mailing lists is a good thing;  and
> you can facilitate it by including the IP address of the browser
> entering the wannabe subscriber address into your initiating webform.
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
> 




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