If you do your opt-ins via email, you don’t have to worry about Spam Arrest since anyone who their users send email to is automatically added to that users whitelist.

To subscribe, they send an email to list@domain.com, then when you send out your mailing from list@domain.com, it goes right through!

You can be held liable finacially ($$$) if SpamArrest/end user so chooses for any future emails. It’s in the fine print which no one ever reads. I’ve never heard of SpamArrest pressing the issue but I wouldn’t want to be the first one to pay the fine ;-)

Jeff

1. It takes your time to do the validation. (This means it is costing you money).
2. The customer has signaled that they *want* to receive your emails. A second confirmation is another chance that you can loose this contact.
3. For a small list, it may be possible to do the verification, but for a bigger list, it will be an overkill.

At the begining I was doing the same as you suggest, and I was manually giving my details to the SpamArrest system.
Given the number of cases where even after validation, the email was already declined by the customer, I don’t bother any longer.

Regards,
JP

Then again if you have subscribers in the tens of thousands, I guess it can be irritating. But that’s a “good problem” right :)