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Here's another thought, just off the top of my head: get people to sign up by sending an email to "subscribe@example.com". You can include that as a "mailto:"
by nickzoic 14y ago
Here's another thought, just off the top of my head: get people to sign up by sending an email to "subscribe@example.com". You can include that as a "mailto:" link and many browsers will deal with it correctly.
There's very good odds that the email they send will have their "From:" (or "Reply-To:") address correctly set. Then just have an email autoresponder which emails them back a link with a token in it, when they click on that it'll take them to a page to create their account, with their email address already filled in by the token.
- eru 14y agoSending people to their emailclient would probably decrease conversion too much.
- nickzoic 14y agoYeah, maybe. But you're going to have to send them there some time to do the "confirm email" thing, I was just thinking perhaps get that over and done with upfront. Ideally, all this would be done away with by OpenID or client-side certificates or something along those lines. The whole password-and-email-in-case-you-forget-it paradigm is broken, really.