[epub] Re: the end of Email-Based subscription?

["Lois Carter Fay/Marketing Idea Shop" <lcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher,

For one of my lists I was using an email address for subscriber-requests to 
be on this list, which, luckily was double-opt-in. I received numerous junk 
emails through this email. I subsequently changed the subscription to a form 
on my website and that's working much better.

I've found there are just too many autobots and spoofers out there. The ones 
I really hate are the ones that use MY EMAIL address to send me a junk 
email. I don't know how to stop it, but I'd sure like to.  It's obvious that 
if they are spamming ME with MY address, they are also spamming OTHERS with 
it, too.

Any ideas?

To your success,
Lois Carter Fay, APR
Founder, Marketing Idea Shop, LLC
Publisher "Brainy Tidbits" marketing ezine
Brainy ideas. Better results.
411 Rainier Road, Massanutten, VA  22840 USA
Phone: 540.289.3840 or 800.203.8660
Fax: 540.289.3839
Web: http://www.marketingideashop.com and http://www.womenmarketing.com
Email: lcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

P.S. Subscribe to "Success Secrets of Women Business Owners" ezine and I'll 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Knight" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Epub Discussion Group" <epub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: [epub] the end of Email-Based subscription?


EPUB thread-starter question for the week:

Have joe-jobs or spoof spam and email viruses completely negated the value
of email-based subscriptions to your email newsletters?





[MODERATORS COMMENT:  Yeah, the solution appears to be to shut down the email-based subscription method and go with a web-based only subscription method.  In a few of my lists alone, for the last 30 days, over 50,000 bogus email requests to join my lists were created. That ends today as the join email addresses are now shut down.]