Re: But Facebook are not spammers

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On 5/25/10 2:24 PM, Jim Murray wrote:
> On 23/05/2010 21:43, Justin Scott wrote:
>
> > As someone who is in a position to architect a similar feature for a web
> > site in the near future, how would you suggest this type of action be
> > implemented?
>
> How I'd do it :
>
> - No address scraping, ever. Directly typed addresses only.
> - No more than one e-mail per user to any single entered address.
> - No 'reminders'.
> - The system should interpret no reply as 'I don't want any more
> messages from this site, ever'.

I think I'd be okay with "this message will repeat itself in one week, 
once."

> - Put a link in the message sent which allows the recipient to decline
> this message but still receive others.
>
> While I personally dislike such systems this seems to me like the 'least
> worst' option. Control stays with the message recipient and it's
> defaults are to be as minimally annoying as possible.
>
> Jim.


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