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It's better to use double-opt-in: 1) Enter email on web page. 2) Open confirmation link in email inbox. If you skip second step - there is a risk that email
by dennisgorelik 15y ago
It's better to use double-opt-in:
1) Enter email on web page.
2) Open confirmation link in email inbox.
If you skip second step - there is a risk that email ends up in spam folder and is constantly delivered there.
Another risk - user did not really request your subscription. That would often result in your emails being marked as spam.
- latitude 15y agoYeah, I guess the biggest issue is someone plugging in john@acmecorp.com just to test the subscription form, and then actual John getting a maillist message and tagging it as a spam. The question here is if the same John would or would not tag a plain confirmation message as spam too, and I suspect that he would, in which case what I wrote above is no worse than a double-opt-in in edge cases.
- cookiecaper 15y agoExcept that you continue to waste the resources of both acmecorp and yourself by sending mail that no one ever sees.