Re: But Facebook are not spammers

[Jim Murray <jim () digitaldaemons co uk>]

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'.
- 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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