[epub] Re: what's the policy?

[Lewis <lewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"There are two sides to the issues of autoresponders and 
challenge/response systems.  Both are solutions by a segment of your 
readership."

I can clearly see two sides to the challenge/response emails, and both 
make sense depending on how much value each subscriber.  People spend a 
lot of money and/or time building and maintaining a subscriber list, 
each subscriber has a value attached to it and therefor it's worth it 
to spend a couple minutes clicking their verify links for most people.  
You only have to do it once per subscriber, then it is done.

On the issue of auto-responders there really is only one side that 
really makes sense, especially when you are talking about discussion 
lists.  You never should send an auto-responder to a discussion list on 
purpose (accidents happen).  At best, the mod gets an auto-responder 
for every single post that goes to the list, at worst (on open lists), 
everyone on the list gets your auto-responder.  Most people are well 
aware of this too, normally around vacation time this is a huge problem 
on lists that I am on.  This year I have only seen a couple.

Challenge/Response is a new issue and part of dealing with the spammy 
world we live in.  The auto-responder issue is a blast from the past.

Lewis