https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5922
--- Comment #12 from Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-06-18 02:11:45 PST
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(In reply to comment #10)
> (in reply to comment #9)
>
> I'm not ready to agree to removing efax.com from the def whitelist yet. Even
> if
> you don't remember signing up for a free efax account, it does look like you
> did sign up at some point, perhaps as part of whatever you did with them in
> 2004. I just went to the efax.co web site to sign up for an eFax-Free account
> and confirmed that they do use confirmed opt-in, i.e., they send an email to
> the address that you register with and require clicking on a link in that
> email
> to activate the new account.
>
> Given that, I think that you should follow the link in the emails you received
> to unsubscribe, deactivating the efax-Free account. Ordinarily that is not a
> wise course of action in actual spam, but there is no evidence that eFax.com
> is
> improper about handling subscription and unsubscription requests. If you do
> that and still get the emails, then that would be a different story. But so
> far
> it still seems more likely that eFax.com is not spamming, but sends what some
> people think is spam, which is the reason to have them on the def whitelist.
>
> I'll leave this bug open for a bit longer until we hear the results of your
> attempt to unsubscribe from the account.
I should point out -- Craig mailed me off-list over the past few days, and
we had some correspondence about this bug; I encouraged him to re-post our
chat here in public, but I guess he didn't want to ;)
As his mail notes, the <craig /at/ progroup.com> address had no prior customer
relationship with eFax.com. Even if _he_ sent someone a mail via an efax
address in 2004, that's not exactly opting in to receive marketing mail from
third parties. Worse than that, the address in question is a different
address; someone at eFax correlated his identity 4 years down the line with a
totally different, unrelated, scraped address. This appears to be e-pending
[1], and I don't think we should be whitelisting senders that do this, since it
is a pretty scummy practice.
[1]: http://taint.org/2006/02/20/112342a.html
So I would be +1 for removing efax.com from the default whitelist due to this,
unless someone from efax can give us details explaining the situation.
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