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Mailing list - "add me" feature
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:13 pm
by Luke
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?
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:23 pm
by feyd
Does the user require being registered for them to see it? If so, associate with user id, otherwise, get their email address. I don't know how much more simple that could be...
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:31 pm
by Luke
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?
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:33 pm
by feyd
Yes, activation key is the standard way.
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:34 pm
by Luke
alright... I guess this was just basically a think out loud thread... thanks for playing along feyd...
