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I strongly believe that if you want to receive email from a site you would enter a valid email address. At least thats how I do it. For something like a paypal
by agotterer 18y ago
I strongly believe that if you want to receive email from a site you would enter a valid email address. At least thats how I do it.
For something like a paypal account, verifying your email address makes sense, if for nothing else making sure you made no typos. But for most simple sites the confirmation email seems like overkill and an unnecessary extra step.
If its to prevent spam, this is even easier to automate then cracking captcha. If its for making sure the email address is valid for future annoying emails. Just give people a reason to want email from you and they will be more then happy to use a valid address.
Quick registration and getting someone on the site as quick as possible should be the number of priority. Get rid of long registration forms and confirmation emails!
- cperciva 18y agoI strongly believe that if you want to receive email from a site you would enter a valid email address. You're missing my point. When sites don't require people to respond to registration confirmation emails, I can sign up using your email address, resulting in you getting a flood of spam. This battle was fought in the early years of the spam war -- companies would send out spam and claim that people had asked to receive the email, and when anyone complained that they hadn't, the spammers would just say "oh, someone else must have signed you up". (For more background, see the spamhaus page on this topic: http://www.spamhaus.org/mailinglists.html http://www.spamhaus.org/mailinglists.html)
- agotterer 18y agoTo be fair, if they are going to be sending spam I dont think they care if you validate your email address. Enter someone elses address and as long as it doesn't get a bounce back, its valid in their eyes.