Re: UKNM: Testing HTML Banners

[Sam Michel]

At 14:55 23/02/00 +0000, Trevor May wrote:

 >Yes. What also annoys me is when mailing lists don't let me know what

 >email address is subscribed to their mailing list. When you own a number

 >

of domains with a *whatever [dot] com redirecting to your email account and

 >they don't tell me which email address has been signed up  I can't 

 >unsubscribe!


  From a technical perspective the list only knows the _exact_ email address 

you gave it, it can't always tell the difference between

*mail [dot] whatever [dot] com

 and

*whatever [dot] com

 although some of the newer programs try.


I'm very cautious about providing access to finding out which emails are on 

the list, as you can imagine this would provide very useful fodder for 

spammers and email marketers without scruples. There is a function at 

Chinwag http://www.chinwag.com which will allow you to enter your email 

address and have your subscriptions sent to that address, it's time 

consuming if you have many addresses, but seemed to me to be the most 

secure way round the problem.


 >Also, it's not particularly nice when outsiders helpfully sign me up to

 >

mailing lists. A problem increased when one owns sfz.com. dsfdszsfz [dot] com

 >is quite a popular choice by those not wishing to give their real address.


If it's any consolation I've had the same problem with Listbot after some 

nice Turkish chap decided to add me to several of his spam lists. I think 

spam in general is going to become a much larger problem...anyone read the 

recent article on the massive increase in spam from China as bandwidth and 

access in that part of the world improves?


Toodle Pip


Sam

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