> If his company is large enough to have several dozens of
> commissioned individuals taking upon themselves to become small-time
> spammers...
Then it's large enough for the admin not to have to do the executives'
dirty work. PrudentialRand is a large company. A contract- and
commission-based business sharing a single superdomain becomes
functionally equivalent in content-scanning terms to a centralized
business; the distributed model, even if it helps the bottom line,
falls apart, and techies should not be responsible for picking up the
pieces (unless, of course, they're getting kickbacks from individual
contractors!).
> Now if I was the guy at AOL that made the determination as to
> whether or not to remove Marc's domain from my blacklist, my first
> question would be, "what have you done to limit the abuse/spam?"
> This is why I recommended that he start there.
If your mail blasts are real estate listings, it's obvious that they
cannot be spaced out over more than a couple of days at the most. I
don't disagree with your suggestion in general, but I doubt it's
applicable to this kind of traffic (while it would be applicable to
annual reports or other mailings with larger windows--and
unfortunately is applicable to lots of typical spam).
> As far as "We hate spam too" links on home pages go, they are highly
> indicative of companies with poor control, a lack of best practices, or
> even a front to fool E-mail administrators into not blacklisting them.
> That would be a red flag in my book.
If it's an actual working link with an well-worded mea culpa, I don't
see it as an issue. There are lots of sites that do contract direct
marketing and have such links on their websites; their ubiquity
doesn't prove that it has any effect--good or bad--with blacklist
owners, and the links may provide actual use to consumers, for all I
know. When you're in trouble, you scramble. IMO, the only other choice
is to shut down completely. And this is quite a quandary for
PrudentialRand.
--Sandy
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