Russ,
Since no one commented on this I figured that I should add a third cent.
The bottom line with any sort of service that charges a fee for adding
IP's to a whitelist is that it will largely attract customers that have
issues with being blacklisted. There is no doubt that most such
services do not desire to be responsible for spamming, but they are
often not capable of verifying that every customer's supposed opt-in
list is from a first-party source and uses exclusively verified
addresses. While places like roving.com (Constant Contact) probably
have over 95% fully legitimate customers, as much as half of the E-mails
that I get from these services are spam. The difference is due to the
volumes.
I have in the past reported issues with known spam operations being
bonded and I was not happy with the resolution that they took in either
case. I believe that your experience will show that there isn't likely
a net benefit to using BondedSender. Clean sources shouldn't have
issues being blacklisted, and dirty sources should be scrutinized,
especially when they service a wide range of unassociated customers.
Blacklists also of course have issues with these mixed/shared sources,
in fact the lack of granularity in IP or domain based tests with such
sources is one of the primary reasons for the problems. Another issue
is that blacklists are fairly unforgiving in how they list such things,
and end-users are not often concerned enough about false positives on
legitimate advertising to seek having them delisted. This forced me to
create my own list of domains and IP's that correspond to bulk-mail
providers so that I could isolate their traffic and score them
differently than I do E-mail. Some are passed automatically except for
extreme circumstances, and others are held automatically and I whitelist
only what customers report, and I whitelist specific mailings by things
like Reply-To addresses and not the entire service.
Matt
Russ Uhte wrote:
What's the general consensus on the BondedSender test? I looked back
through the archive, and found a little debate on it. I know Matt
said he removed the test completely. I've never enabled logging for
messages that pass until today. And right off the get-go I get 2 that
definitely shouldn't have passed, but bondedsender said they were good...
-Russ
---
[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]
---
This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To
unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found
at http://www.mail-archive.com.
---
This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To
unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found
at http://www.mail-archive.com.
