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• Is this a typo? (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  I found the following sentence in the article on bulk email:

  It's incredibly rude to send an email address from an email address that won't accept replies.

  Surely the first occurrence of "address" shouldn't be there?
  • Re:Is this a typo? (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    You're absolutely right. And I've fixed it now.
    
    I need better copyeditors :)
    
  • Re:Is this a typo? (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Similar:

    The second option is less secure as anyone can intercept the email address and get access to the link, so the first option should be prefered. [dave.org.uk]

    I think you meant "anyone can intercept the email."

    Also, it was not apparent to me why the second option was less secure until I read rule 2. It was news to me (welcome news) that option 1 could be made more secure by leaving out the user name. You might want to reorder or reword things to make this more notable, because I'm betting a lot of otherw

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    • Re:Is this a typo? (Score:2)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      I was going to name and shame the site that I dealt with this afternoon, but I wrote them a polite email explaining the problems and in less than 45 minutes I got a reply saying that these problems had already been noted and that they should be fixed by the end of the week. That's pretty good customer service so I won't embarass them by telling everyone who they are.

      Oh, and I think you should name and praise them, assuming this is actually fixed!

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
    • Re:Is this a typo? (Score:2)

      by bart (450)

      I saw that too, after I posted my comment here.
      
      It looks like davorg has a thing for the phrase "email address" when he just means "email". :)