At 11:01 AM -0400 9/20/01, Stephen Carter is rumored to have typed:
We put people on a list when they request certain information, so that we can send out follow ups easily.
Better idea; allow THEM to subscribe THEMSELVES to your list, which negates the need to remove the subscribe text; and I'd also suggest strongly you add the confirm routines to it to require subscribers to confirm their desire as well. I know if you stuck me on a mailing list without my explicit request, I'd immediately report you to your upstreams. (I have done _exactly_ that more times than I care to count when companies pulled that stunt on me.)
Perhaps our approach is wrong. We are subscribing people by sending an email to the request-listname. Would it be more "normal" in these cases for us to have a script which would write directly to the accept file?
I think your approach is wrong, frankly, but not the way you expect. You should be allowing your customers to subscribe THEMSELVES...anything outside of that could rightly be considered UCE. (This explains why it took so long for anyone to respond to your initial question...many of us when reading your original request were uncomfortable giving you any information that would help you hide from your subscribers that you were adding their addresses to a mailing list without their express concent and confirmation. Unfortunately, your follow-up does little to ease that discomfort. Your subscribers should be in COMPLETE control to sub and unsub - otherwise it's just spam.) Charlie