Verify email. Wtf?

Re:Verify email. Wtf? by rarestblog on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:01AM (#703815)

The reasons are: 1. People who don't like you won't be able to subscribe you to (legitimate) stuff you don't want, therefore flooding your inbox with legitimate e-mails that won't be blocked by SPAM filters. 2. You are making sure you didn't make a typo in your e-mail in case you need to reset your password, so that somebody with similar address doesn't get your password. 3. Obvious marketing legal reasons (double opt-in, i.e. you did confirm that you want to receive marketing spam from us).

The "easy" signup isn't with username-password-email-submit, it's with OpenID.

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Re:Verify email. Wtf? by prodigal_erik on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:23AM (#703863)

This. If you are not doing confirmed (aka "double") opt-in, your list will be abused and you will definitely be regarded as a spammer.

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Re:Verify email. Wtf? by dminor on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:28AM (#703872)

Not to mention double opt-in is required by most certified email services before you can use them.

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Re:Verify email. Wtf? by patio11 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:50PM (#704048)

Yep. Then the fine upstanding email services get your email into their inbox precisely because they're religious about who they let use them. Which is, of course, the whole point of the exercise.

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Re:Verify email. Wtf? by JDigital on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:50AM (#703916)

I was about to post almost exactly this to the link's comments, but they wanted me to sign up first, perhaps to confirm my identity. Irony much?

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Re:Verify email. Wtf? by cema on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:09PM (#703969)

Agree on all points. Including OpenID.

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