Re: Intrusive Legacy

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:25:40 +0000, Ian Goddard wrote:

And that's a common trick used by many websites. Nevertheless many of
us find it objectionable, especially as it's sometimes well concealed
right at the bottom of the form and maybe off-screen.

It's also objectionable that the unsubscribe link is at almost
inevitably at the bottom of the email. If we didn't want the junk in
the first place we'd hardly want to scroll through it to unsubscribe.

But knowing this, it should be the first place people would look :))
.

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