- Michael Kallas (michael.kallas@web.de) wrote:
This has been considered illegal by the Landgericht Berlin:
Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list Mailman-Users
We have received a request from [IP address] for subscription of your email address, "michael.kallas@web.de", to the mailman-users@python.org mailing list. [...] This court decided (search Google for "16 O 515/02") that it is considered to be "unwanted advertisement" (UCE, SPAM) if a businessman gets a mail in which he is asked whether he wants to be subscribed to a newsletter. It would be the task of the newsletter administrator to prove that the other person really _wanted_ to subscribe. Similar rights could be used for private persons, so this affects indeed all mailing lists / newsletters.
So turn off the confirmation so you assume if the user clicks the subscribe, they _want_ to be subscribed.
| Matthew Davis /\ http://dogpound.vnet.net/ | |--------------------------------------------| | Friday, December 06, 2002 / 12:09PM |
Futuristic: It only runs on the next-generation supercomputer.