From roger@firedrake.org Wed Jun 25 10:44:31 2003
From: Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org>
To: smartlist@lists.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re: subscribe box?
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:44:25 +0100
Message-ID: <20030625084425.GA28428@firedrake.org>
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:36:36PM -0400, Paula Pierce, HostingCT.com wrote:
>Is there a way to  have people subscribe through a text box instead of 
>an email link?

There are various web interfaces around - I believe this is discussed in
the FAQ. In addition, you could simply put

<a href="mailto:listname-request(a)domain?subject=subscribe">...

which will work with many web browsers.

One cautionary point: my experience is that if you combine this with a
low-traffic list you will get lots of angry people saying "stop spamming
me" and "I didn't sign up for this" even if you produce their
confirmation email messages. When I moved from a mailto: link to text of
the form "send mail to X with subject line Y", I removed these problems
completely (and the list got a lot more interesting too).

Roger
(SmartList FAQ at http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/SmartList-FAQ.html)


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