blogiquette

[firecat]

If you comment on someone's blog, and need to give an e-mail address to do so, is it acceptable for them to subscribe you to their mailing list? (No notice is given of such automatic subscription in the comment area.)

I don't think it's acceptable. I'm not all that angry about it, but I'm minorly ticked and trying to decide whether to complain.




Update I did complain. The blogger responded that my winding up on zir mailing list was unintentional.

Comments

[geekchick]

I don't think that's acceptable either. My own preference would be to be given a choice to opt-in or not, and at the very least there should be a notification that your address will be added to a mailing list before you comment.