Re: subscribe box?

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:36:36PM -0400, Paula Pierce, HostingCT.com wrote:
>Is there a way to  have people subscribe through a text box instead of 
>an email link?

There are various web interfaces around - I believe this is discussed in
the FAQ. In addition, you could simply put

<a href="mailto:listname-request@domain?subject=subscribe">...

which will work with many web browsers.

One cautionary point: my experience is that if you combine this with a
low-traffic list you will get lots of angry people saying "stop spamming
me" and "I didn't sign up for this" even if you produce their
confirmation email messages. When I moved from a mailto: link to text of
the form "send mail to X with subject line Y", I removed these problems
completely (and the list got a lot more interesting too).

Roger
(SmartList FAQ at http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/SmartList-FAQ.html)