Ahh, to the meat of the problem. Definetly, scanning is bad.

However, if your handling the ordering for the client, and they want an e-mail list, you may want to put in code to confirm those e-mails for the list itself. I have some code which I can post (it's in Perl) which can do that. I just have to remove some proprietary items, make it generic.

Also, always include the option for signing up for the list default it to "No, I don't want to sign up". You'll get a lot less complaints that way.

MAPS pushes these ideas, but they've been formed out of consensus by many sysadmins while being flooded with mail durring the CyberPromo "era."

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