Originally Posted by venus

I have email boxes on all my sites and even had it on a free hosting site I had, been collecting them since 1998 this way, but as of about a year ago and especially more recently, its harder to get news letters though all the anti-spam crap. I have no idea how many are getting through, but I know its not what it used to be. I use a double optin and a single opt out system and scrub bad addresses out so my list stays pretty updated.

Anyone trying to do this needs to use double optin, its tempting to not use it, but if you don't, people will be adding all kinds of crap to your list like abuse@fbi or some stupid crap.