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Re: weirdo warning


From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:29:00 +0300

Rich Kulawiec wrote:
The serious part:

Wording: the proper term is "confirmed opt-in" -- that is, a confirmation
step is used in order to make sure that the person claiming that they want
to subscribe is the only person authorized to make such claims, i.e., the
owner of the email address in play.  "double opt-in" is spammer-speak,
and it's a nonsense phrase besides: there's nothing being done twice.
It was coined by spammers (who have also used "triple opt-in" and even
"quadruple opt-in") in order to obfuscate their tactics.

But it's clearer?
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