[GTALUG] Specific question about mailing list management

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:08:47 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> The dangers of doing this wrong now go beyond RBLs in the era of CASL and
> GDPR. Organizations are being fined.
> 
> One thing that is now part of best practices (ours at least) is to have as
> the very first paragraph of all mailings, a "You are receiving this because
> [...]" statement along with references to the list management and
> unsubscribe links below.

Evan,

   My manual system has an unsubscribe paragraph in the template.  I
had an interesting incident a couple of years ago.  Someone emailed and
asked to be removed from my list.  I emailed back that they were not on
my list.  It turned out they had an email alias that was on my list.  

   It helps if a human keeps an eye on this stuff.  I don't think I
have had problems with the authorities.  I have unsubscribe
instructions, and two email addresses with notes on how often they are
checked.

-- 
Howard Gibson 
hgibson at eol.ca
jhowardgibson at gmail.com
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