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Gmail and Yahoo Users: Welcome to MailChimp

November 14th, 2008 | by Ben

SMS verificationWe’ve never allowed people to sign up for MailChimp accounts using an email address with @gmail, @yahoo, @hotmail, etc.

Those webmail accounts are too anonymous, too “disposable”  and too easy for evil spammers to create (check out how they use cheap labor just to beat captchas). So we always required that you use your “company” domain name. To be honest, we’ve always hated that requirement, because no matter how logical our reasoning was, people complained.

So we’re experimenting with something.

We just added SMS verification to our free trial form. If you signup there with an email address from one of the most popular webmail clients, you’ll be asked to enter your cell phone number & carrier.

We’ll send a code to your mobile device, and if you can verify it, we’ll know you’re a human (plus, we’ll have a “paper trail” for your account).

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Posted in MailChimp Upgrade | 6 Comments »

6 Comments

    • Lan says:

      I think this’ll be great. I’ve been tinkering with the thought of having my own newsletter side-business, so in the past, I wouldn’t have been able to use my company e-mail address to sign up for my own account.

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    • Lan says:

      oh crud…i didn’t realize my pic was up there…i forgot how to take it down…

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    • Ben says:

      Hi Lan, I think those pics come from Gravatar.

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    • Linda LaStella says:

      I am a ceramic artist who has only one e-mail, my website, BUT NO cell phone…to speak of…definitely not one with text messaging capability!!!
      How can I be verified to use MAIL CHIMP????????????
      I would love to use it!!!! Please tell me how….

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      • Ben says:

        @Linda – Go to wherever you setup your domain name, claysongs.com. Setup an email address, like linda@claysongs.com. Use that to signup for MailChimp. You’ll need to do this eventually, because you’ll want your email newsletters to use your domain name in the reply-to field, in order to look more trustworthy to your subscribers and to spam filters.

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