CAN SPAM Law: need double opt-in rather than a confirmation

[jonisolis]

I just found the following info on this web page:

http://www.emaildoctor.info/protectingyourself1.html
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So the first thing you must do is enhance your email subscription process is to make sure it operates on a double opt-in rather than a confirmation principle. In other words, when someone subscribes to your email newsletter or whatever information you're offering via email subscription, you must send them an email with confirmation hyperlinks that the subscriber must click in order to confirm their intention to subscribe.

Furthermore, you must log the IP address, date and time, and email address, of every subscription request so you can prove to the subscriber (and possibly the Federal Trade Commission or FTC) that this person indeed requested a subscription.

If you lack this information, then you're setting yourself up for accusations and attacks by subscribers and, potentially, the FTC. To be safe you must be able to prove that every person you are emailing has, indeed, requested to be emailed by you.

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My question is does ListMailPro log the IP address, date and time, and email address, of every subscription request?

[mr.trevor]

You need not worry about any of that, the confirmation mail (when selected in Welcome / Confirm Messages of ‘List Settings’) has a link that they click to confirm the subscription. They then get a welcome mail (if selected also).
You can get sent back to your admin an email for every confirmation with date and time, i/p, e-mail and any other custom details you ask for which are logged as well in the database with a referral URL where they were submitted from. You can look these up in the ‘user database’ by using ‘edit’ of the subscriber.
You can also easily put a one click unsubscribe link in each mail sent.
You can also remind then when, where, i/p, name, e-mail address etc. in every mail you send with the ‘Message Codes’ if you wish. You can create your own custom Message Codes with disclaimer or copyright texts to save on your fingers.
Dean seems to have thought of it all here.
:-)

[steve]

What he said...

ListMail will cover you.

When you select the User Database, it displays all of the users that have signed up. From there, you can select the Edit button next to a name and you see the following above their information:

Date Added: 2005-04-10  IP: 68.3.102.232  Ref URL: http://domainname.com/register.htm

So it logs the date, IP and referring URL for you.

If you IMPORT data, it will show: Date Added: 2005-03-13  IP: Unknown  Ref URL: Imported

NOTE: if you EXPORT your list to a CSV file and then IMPORT that CSV file, I think you will loose the IP Address and Referrer.

I was thinking of doing that to "clean up" my list then I figured I would not want to loose that information (IP and Referrer). When I say "clean up" I wanted to switch all first and last names to proper case - STEVE to Steve since that looks better in the e-mails I send out.

Steve

[DW]

Thanks again for your excellent responses, guys!  Less support means more time for new features.

I will make a note about improving Import / Export to accomodate more fields, including IP and RefURL.  I was thinking about also providing the option to specify your own custom RefUrl when importing, so you are able to distinguish between imported lists.

Regards!

[steve]

I will make a note about improving Import / Export to accomodate more fields, including IP and RefURL.

I'd like that.