On 6/19/2001, on [log in to unmask], Wayne T. Smith wrote: >>The current mailing list *fad* is opt-in. The opt-in doesn't have to be >>*via* the mailing list, but people have come to expect opt-in. A >>corollary to opt-in is that mailing lists have easy opt-out, which often >>means signoff directions near the end of each announcement mailing. I think that the reason that the current 'fad', to use your word, is that way because a high percentage of SPAM arrives in the guise of a opt-out mailing list. Most of us, when we see a message telling us that we now belong to a list but we can have our name -removed- often automatically go into SPAM-fighting mode, sometimes without checking to see if the mailing list might be something we might have solicited. -Debra Douglass -- .------------------------------------------------------------------. |Debra Douglass [log in to unmask] http://www.catrio.org| `------------------------------------------------------------------'