On 5/25/10 2:24 PM, Jim Murray wrote: > On 23/05/2010 21:43, Justin Scott wrote: > >> As someone who is in a position to architect a similar feature for a web >> site in the near future, how would you suggest this type of action be >> implemented? > > How I'd do it : > > - No address scraping, ever. Directly typed addresses only. > - No more than one e-mail per user to any single entered address. > - No 'reminders'. > - The system should interpret no reply as 'I don't want any more > messages from this site, ever'.
I think I'd be okay with "this message will repeat itself in one week, once." > - Put a link in the message sent which allows the recipient to decline > this message but still receive others. > > While I personally dislike such systems this seems to me like the 'least > worst' option. Control stays with the message recipient and it's > defaults are to be as minimally annoying as possible. > > Jim. > -- Gadi Evron, [email protected]. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
