Mailing list - "add me" feature
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Mailing list - "add me" feature
I am building an "add me to your mailing list" feature on a site. What's the best (and most painless for the user) way to do this?
no user registration is necessary... I'm just wondering if it's going to necessary to validate their email address by sending a confirmation email or anything like that... I mean it doesn't really matter if I'm sending emails to non-existant email addresses, huh?
But then again I guess it might be important to validate that the person who signed up is the owner of the email address so that somebody cant sign up for somebody else...
What's the best way to validate that the person signing up owns the email address? I was thinking of just setting up a key in the database, then sending the email with that key and having the user click on an activation link... is that the standard way?
But then again I guess it might be important to validate that the person who signed up is the owner of the email address so that somebody cant sign up for somebody else...
What's the best way to validate that the person signing up owns the email address? I was thinking of just setting up a key in the database, then sending the email with that key and having the user click on an activation link... is that the standard way?