- From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:06:17 -0600 (CST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Arjun Ray, at 02:04 -0500 on Sun, 17 Dec 2000, wrote:
So, the reasonable hypothesis is that these people did *not* read
this. Which raises the question: then how did they get on the
list to begin with? And the answer seems to be: some bogotic
RTFM-challenged "service" did it for them, automatically. As Dan
and the rest of us surmise, they just clicked on something
somewhere, not realizing that they were not being done a favor.
One possible solution is that it is just too easy to subscribe others
without requiring confirmation. Perhaps the list management should
institute requiring subscription-confirmations. This would help not only
auto-subscribing by "services", but also if the user just follows a
mailto: link to the service, and the mailer sends automatically or
requiring little user attention/intervention.
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Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
Received on Sunday, 17 December 2000 01:06:17 UTC